chapotraphouse

I hard disagree. Putting linux on a different disk from windows is even more complicated and distro installers cannot handle it. If you install it on the same disk as windows most distro installers do an okay job.

After reading someone posting advice like yours I tried to install a dual-boot on separate disks using ubuntu. Managed to trash both windows & linux installs, making my computer unbootable. Two years later I committed to installing Arch so had to teach myself all about UEFI and bootloaders and boot partitions and MBR vs. GPT partition tables and and and and... - finally got it working. This isn't even getting into the notorious footguns where windows sets wake-on-lan/magic packet flags in the NIC volatile memory which the linux network driver can't understand so your internet connection fails in very mysterious ways. Or the hibernate & fast boot stuff.

Point being there are just way way too many moving parts to ever recommend dual boot to anybody. It is a great way to make somebody have a terrible experience and never try linux again.