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I did a similar thing when starting out with KDE neon, but I found having windows annoying as it would keep breaking Linux's bootloader (grub) randomly because Microsoft is an asshole.
On my laptop, I ended up removing the windows disk altogether, and it's a much nicer experience.
Dual boot might be necessary at first, but if you can just boot Linux and use a windows vm on it, that would probably be a better idea.
From experience windows only seems to screw grub If they're installed on the same drive, I use seperate drives for windows/Linux and haven't noticed any issues
I used seperate drives, and installed Windows and Linux seperately before connecting them to the same pc, but I still had the problem.
Can windows also break grub on gpt or only legacy mbr?