I want to have a dual-boot laptop where half is Windows and half is Debian. If i encrypt Debian during installation, will it break Windows? I just want to be safe. Thanks in advance
No. Windows will, however, find other reasons to break.
Microsoft, uh, finds a way.
I got tired of windows updates breaking my dual boot. After some research I found that it’s possible to have two uefi partitions: one for windows and one for Linux. It’s not standard but there is nothing expressly written into the efi spec that prohibits it. And it just works. My bios doesn’t care, and works with them both just fine.
I only use Windows for that 1% of business stuff I can’t accomplish in a vm under windows. Invariably after I boot into widows once ever 3 months it installs so.e update and would kill my ability to boot into Linux. Since setting up 2 partitions I haven’t had this problem.
Windows wont care either way, it’s just an unreadable partition to it.
No, encrypted or not won’t matter, because the boot partition is still unencrypted.
I don’t think anyone recommends dual booting these days. If you’re not watchful, an upgrade on one system might break the boot config for the other.
But if the OS are installed on two separate hard drives they shouldn’t interfer?
Depends. A naive installer will always install to the first drive in the boot order. I haven’t dual booted in years, so I don’t know how smart they are these days.
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Nah it should be fine.
If you want to be safe backup anything you care about before hand. Assume that you might end up needing to wipe the system and reinstall everything. Encrypting the Linux partitions should not affect windows but there are so many other steps that could go wrong when partitioning and installing a system it is better to backup everything you care about just incase.
