The fear is well grounded. When I first tried to install Linux, I figured I was being safe by doing dual boot and only putting Linux on a tertiary hard drive rather than the main. (And so I’d access it by choosing to boot from that nice, modular component on startup.)
Result: Locked out of entire computer; cannot get past bootloader. Higher distaste for existence.
The fear is well grounded. When I first tried to install Linux, I figured I was being safe by doing dual boot and only putting Linux on a tertiary hard drive rather than the main. (And so I’d access it by choosing to boot from that nice, modular component on startup.)
Result: Locked out of entire computer; cannot get past bootloader. Higher distaste for existence.