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Microsoft is a virus.
Best fixed by installing Linux. Problem solved.
I have been running Linux Ubuntu in Hyper-V, which is part of Windows Pro and above.
That way you don’t have to dual boot and can run Windows and Linux at the same time.
Three version of the Ubuntu Virtual Machine are included with Hyper-V, V18LTS, V20LTS and V22LTS.
Hyper-V is a Type 1 VM, meaning the guest operating systems run directly on the hardware and are as fast as if you were running dual boot. Type 2 VMs are software emulators, and are much slower.
Doing it this way bypasses the GRUB vulnerability.
Is this the same company that wants to make tens of millions of perfectly good computers junk?
I found out (the hard way) that some newer Linux distros also break dual boot by doing something that prevents the user from booting into Windows, whatever the flavor is. What I did to get around this was to 1). Program Windows first, remove the hardware, program Linux unto another drive, reinserting Windows ensuring it was the primary boot to O/S, then use BCDedit to dual boot the disks, or 2). Install Windows, install an older version of Linux (20.X), use BEDedit to fix the dual boot capabilities, then upgrade Linux to the current version. A lot of work, yes, but it works.
It is fortuitous that I looked at Free Republic just now as I have Rufus is completing a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu Studio 24.04.2 LTS that I am planning on installing alongside Windows 11 Pro tonight. I added a second drive to the computer and will be installing Ubuntu on that drive, because sometimes this helps alleviate some of the issues.
This is on a new AMD Ryzen 5 3500u mini-PC that I paid $119 for but have now added a few upgrades. It is more capable than I expected... it was going to be used as a server hooked to a RAID enclosure that would use less electricity than the larger computer that I currently am using. It uses very little power at idle. But it is capable enough that my plans have changed a bit for it.
I have had issues in the past with Windows or Linux breaking the dual boot in the past... so I am going to research this a little further before installing Ubuntu this evening... I may go the virtual machine route instead... except that the Ryzen’s capable integrated Vegas 8 GPU typically does not get used efficiently if at all in Hyper V virtual machines.
In the past I've constructed and used dual-boot systems, on both PCs and Macs. I've used Xen (another Type 1 hypervisor) to run various VMs. I've run VMs on various hosts in Type 2 hypervisors (usually VMware).
I would not choose to dual-boot again unless there was no other option. After you get used to the productivity of having two or three operating systems running at once, the annoyance of having to reboot to get to a different OS is just silly. The only justification would be if your application absolutely required every bit of CPU and RAM in the hardware.
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ransomnote putting out Linux articles... Thank you! MS is full of it, they did it on purpose. In fact they have done this in the past. They made deals with Laptop manufacturers to not allow an alternative OS to boot on their computers at all. And they have made it too complicated for the average user to set up the bios to boot an alternative from USB.