Reply To: Ubuntu
Adrian,
Question for you, when you boot your computer do you get a screen asking what OS you want to load? Screen will look like something like this. Ignore the Kali I don’t think anyone will be using it for blender just the first example I was able to google.
This is the boot loader to avoid. What is happening here is when installing linux you will get an option to “Install along Side Window” as an install option and linux will install this special boot loader that will then package the Windows and the copy of Linux boot loaders and then give you the option of what loader to launch, an inception of loaders. This is where the problem comes up during Windows updates, the Windows boot loaded no longer exist as the partition that it use to live on is now nested in the special boot loader partition that is now hosting both Windows and Linux boot loaders. Windows will try to fix the boot partition and break both Windows and linux boot loaders inside the partition. The worst part about this option is once you have this boot loader you can’t go back and even if you have dual drive or partitioned your drive you can specify the drive to load linux on but if your not careful and miss the option to load the boot loader on that same drive linux will assume you only want one loader and install the special loader.
This doesn’t always have problems but I’ve always avoided installing with this loader on systems I care about. It’s good for the non-savy user to setup and works well but like I said if it is a critical system or the system has something I care about I don’t do it this way.