My Dual Boot Experience How I Broke My Laptop

When I bought my first laptop, it came with Windows 11.
It was new, fresh launched. I thought wow, finally my own laptop
But after using it few days… I felt something is off.
Too many pop-ups, background things, unnecessary stuff running.
System was heavy. I just wanted a clean experience, where I can focus and use it properly.
Then I heard about Linux....
No idea how it works.
I was scared what if I break my system. What if I lose everything.
But I was also curious.
I started watching videos online. But most of them were not beginner-friendly.
Slowly, I learned about virtual machine. I tried Ubuntu first.
And I liked it. It was simple, fast, and clean.
Then I thought why not dual boot? Let me use both Windows and Linux together.
First try big mess.
I installed wrong, Windows got corrupted.
BitLocker started asking for recovery keys. I had no idea what that was.
Whole night I didn’t sleep, trying to fix. I thought my laptop is gone.
Somehow I managed to clean install Windows again.
Still, I didn’t give up....
Tried again. Failed again. GRUB issues, bootloader confusion, partitions, secure boot…
I messed up many times.
But every time I broke something, I also learned something.
I understood how Linux file system works, what is GRUB, how bootloader works, how Windows and Linux handle partitions differently.
Over time, I installed many distros Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, CentOS.
Sometimes I succeeded, many times I failed.
But I didn’t stop.
I learned to fix things. I learned what not to do.
Now, my laptop runs Windows + Linux dual boot smoothly.
No problem. I know how to install, how to fix if anything breaks.
Looking back, I smile.
Because I really messed up a lot
Everyone says don’t do dual boot, it’s risky.
But I say do it, mess it up, learn from it.
its teaches more than any tutorial.
This whole journey gave me confidence.
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