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Can Linux be dual booted on a computer with Windows?
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It's very easy if Windows was there first. If you install it after Linux, they'll hijack the bootloader and you have to restore it before you can boot back into Linux. If Windows is already installed, Linux will install a custom grub (bootloader front-end) allowing you to choose which OS to boot by default, or to choose on each boot.
I'd suggest to update from Win 10 to 11 before you install Linux, you never know what the update does.
As for the Linux flavor, my favorite is Xubuntu, a very lightweight variant of Ubuntu using the xfce window manager, which is lightning fast. I've tried many, many variants and stuck with it for performance and stability.
Whichever order you install the OSes in, they will all fight over who gets to boot first. Multiple installs of Ubuntu will even fight with each other. It’s manageable, but annoying.