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Sure, absolutely, either way if you have room for two drives. I like to put a Linux OS on an external USB drive as portable. I can just grab the drive and go plug it into any computer and boot up on the external.

Basically a big USB stick that is a full system drive with storage and all. I have a couple 2 Tb portable externals I can swap around onto any computer even a Mac.

Here is the thing, Linux is almost as fast running from an external drive as it is from an internal drive. Pretty hard to tell the difference in speed.

I think the dual boot is a great solution. I use Linus for almost all my daily usage, internet, email, weather, fr, or whatever. The only time I use my windows 7 Machine is when I need to run photoshop, painting programs like Rebelle, On-One, my photography (I could use Linux for that, but I like how windows handles it better) or play windows only games.

95% of my computer use is done in linux, but there are times need windows, so i boot up into windows and all is fine. I have my windows set to NOT connect to the internet so i can use it without worrying- but will go online from time to time to update drivers or download pa5ches or updates for programs.

Try the disk or USB stick with Linux on it- I think you will like it pretty well. You don’t have to get deep into the weeds with it, and can customize it pretty easily to how you like it. Being that I basically just use a computer for simple stuff now, Linux mint cinnamon fits the bill perfectly. No fuss no muss. And again, I have my windows whenever i need it too. Very happy with the setup.

Oh and Linux mint is a real pleasure to install- not like windows at all. It is quick, and customizing is now fairly quick for me- I can do it all in a few hours as compared to a few days with windows and their endless updates, patches, os tweaks, security tweaks to keep out da bad guys etc. Linux is all very simple and quick to install and make my own.