You can dual boot but would highly recommend that you have a separate Windows SSD. Microsoft likes to dick around with the boot loader and bricking the ability to dual boot.
I am still dual booting myself with a small SSD for the rare occasion I want to run a game that isn’t supported on Linux but honestly I haven’t done that in over half a year now so Windows just kinda sits they taking to 200 GB of space.
You can run games from your windows drives but it’s better not to, it can cause weird issues because of the way files are stored (case sensitive vs insensitive, permissions etc.)
You can dual boot but would highly recommend that you have a separate Windows SSD. Microsoft likes to dick around with the boot loader and bricking the ability to dual boot.
I am still dual booting myself with a small SSD for the rare occasion I want to run a game that isn’t supported on Linux but honestly I haven’t done that in over half a year now so Windows just kinda sits they taking to 200 GB of space.
I’m out of rack space for another drive but I guess I can try on a portable one.
Would steam be able to see my existing games or do I have to redownload them?
You can run games from your windows drives but it’s better not to, it can cause weird issues because of the way files are stored (case sensitive vs insensitive, permissions etc.)
Your windows drive would be fine, Linux side you’d need to download then again.