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Dual booting can be problematic. Windows is the most retarded OS ever which sometimes decides to overwrite boot partition.
FOr trying out stuff, you van install Linux as a virtual machine. Check there if your sw works there and is available.
Absolutely! Dual booting on a work machine running AV software. Sounds like a nightmare just waiting to happen..... It'll break when you least expect it and your client is gonna flip shit.
VM is definitely the way to go. Give it max resources and run it full screen until you get a secondary tinkering tool or succumb to WSL
Ugh, yeah. Dual booting is such a headache lol
Once the opposite occurred to me. Fedora overwrote my Windows installation. Dual-booting isn't safe.