If i understand correctly, i could leave the windows install as is, but disable it from appearing during boot, and install a program to read the files from the windows partition?

If so that’s actually a perfect solution :)

Following the guide as i write this :)

Hybrid sleep was luckily already disabled, and the laptop has 8GB ram so it should be fine.

Windows is the old OS i have a reason to keep, otherwise it would be all linux.

I’m going to use it for software development as im studying software engineering in uni, so probably not much else, and windows is the old OS of said device, so i just need to limit the windows partition and make a new linux one

Thanks, a few questions, what is a swap partition, and why is it needed?

Also i have a ton of free storage so the linux install will probably have over 200gb in its partition

Kinda need the old OS, it’s a close friend’s computer and it took too long to get just a few files out of it, i want to keep the rest just in case we missed something.

(Also I don’t want to just backup the whole ass hard drive)