jeronimov

Extreme much.  Geez, kneejerk reactions. 

i personally use PINN rather than noobs but yer great guide.

Yes, it is an old Core Duo from 2007ish so no UEFI. So yes to Tabs: it is an older system.
And Thanks rcmaehl, I will follow that guide from a Fedora 28 live DVD.

As someone who's reinstalled Windows and Linux on top of each other several times here's what you need to do and what you can expect:
 
Install Windows using the CUSTOM install options, delete ONLY the NTFS partitions and select the Unallocated space created by them. Do NOT delete the partitions listed as UNKNOWN
- Windows will override the Boot Sector and you'll lose the option to boot to Fedora, but won't lose the boot partition, unless you deleted it for some reason...
  Boot from a Linux Live CD or USB
  Use THIS TOOL to set back up your Grub Bootloader

It doesn't look like you are using UEFI, but just to verify: you're using plain, old MBR-boot with GRUB, yes? It is possible to recover a broken GRUB-installation, and http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/disk-partitioning/Repairing-a-damaged-Grub/ would probably get you along.

If you manually create a partition and point windows to it, it will install everything - including files normally reserved for the MSR - on that partition. If your current bootloader is designed to point to the windows bootloader on that partition and you've already set it up like that, then there should be no issues.
 
From your layout, you're running either an older system or a modern system with CSM enabled, which means you might have some issues with the master boot record. If that happens, you can boot any Linux-based boot media and rebuild your boot menu, and chainload the BCD for the windows install.

Windows works, simple as. It runs most software, especially games, it's easy to use, the newest one is free if you don't mind a watermark, it hits the sweet spot between being harder to break while also giving the user a lot of freedom, etc.
 
OSX on the other hand is locked into godawful invasive Apple apps ecosystem and is basically designed to make you buy new Macs every couple of years, which to a third world guy like me is a laughably unrealistic proposition.
 
Linux looks cool in theory (I love free software) but it's just way too fricking hard to use, troubleshoot, or just make it work even for an advanced user like me. Unless someone is a programmer or some such power user, I don't understand why they'd ever bother with linux when windows 10 is free.

Microsoft has DECADES of experience in this particular capability, and its the main reason it still owns the desktop OS market.
 
Linux, as an ecosystem, is FAR too unstable for production use outside of providing services to other devices through some kind of abstraction layer, and OS X is far too intoxicated on its own farts to consider running old code.
 
I use all three and have no allegiance to a particular OS.  The one constant is that I will always have a Windows box in running condition while Linux/OSX boxes come and go.

Honestly you should write a book lmao. the vocabulary you used in this captured my attention. But I definitely see what you mean. And for all the crap people give windows, I have to say. It just works. Its easy enough for anyone to use and as long as youre not doing anything crazy, its stable.

In my experience this only happens as frequently as you describe it after you accept the local guide badge on your google account. If you ignore it for a while it will stop.