Folks, let me tell you, dual-booting sounds great. "Oh, I’ll have Windows! I’ll have BSD! It’ll be wonderful!" But guess what? It’s NOT wonderful. It’s a total mess. A disaster. The worst!
You shut down Windows, right? Looks fine. But then you boot into BSD, BOOM! Windows left things in a bad state. Dirty shutdowns, folks. Very bad. It starts running CHKDSK, throwing errors, maybe even corrupting data. And BSD? Same deal. You leave a ZFS pool in a weird state, reboot into Windows, good luck! Windows doesn’t know what to do with it. It’s confused, and confusion is BAD.
Now, you think, “I’ll just reboot.” But NO! Windows Update decides to run. Takes forever. Doesn’t care about BSD. And BSD? BSD’s just sitting there, waiting. It’s sad!
And let’s talk about EFI bootloaders, what a mess. Windows likes to say, "I'm in charge now." It overwrites your BSD entry. Next thing you know, you're stuck in Windows, begging to get your bootloader back. Tragic. Absolutely tragic.
So what’s the solution? Simple: DON’T DUAL-BOOT. Get another disk. Another machine. Virtualize if you have to. But putting two operating systems on the same disk? That’s like letting two New York real estate developers share the same building, one of them is getting EVICTED.
Folks, dual-booting is a RISK. You don’t want it. I don’t want it. It’s a total disaster. Make BSD great, run it on its own drive! Believe me.
