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Really any distro should be fine. It's more a matter of getting the bootloader setup correctly.
Do note that, depending on the configuration, Windows will randomly overwrite stuff and mess up dual boot.
If you can for your situation, I would suggest running a Windows VM inside Linux to get certain tasks done.
I stopped dual booting windows 10 just because it kept messing up my boot loader when it performed certain updates
Well I suppose that issue goes away next month when win 10 goes EOL and stops getting updates.
Hahah very true
A workaround would be to cut off Windows Update and manually install major revisions when they get released. You will need to reconstruct grub less often and still remain on latest revisions
You can solve that problem by making an additional efi/boot partition when you install Linux over the Windows install.
You have Linux setup with its own boot partition and the install should probe for a foreign OS, it then adds a chainloader entry in grub to point to the Windows EFI partition.
You set BIOS to boot from Linux EFI partition. When it comes up at boot you can chose Windows and Grub hands over control to the windows bootloader, but Windows is ignorant of Linux EFI existing. It now only messes with its own EFI and never touches the Linux stuff.
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That is a good idea. Think I have done that before but it's been so long I forgot. These days I just have one windows machine that runs on separate hardware. Keeps everything isolated.
I will try Win VM, I hope I'll male It work.
Adding to your comment, perhaps having 2 separate bootloaders reduces the chances of such breakages.