does Dual boot is safe for machine

[iap]

i have windows 10 for coding, ui&ux(adobe products) designs but for now i just realized internet surfing has some security addition software. the machine dose it also (bitdefender). i decide to move my workflows like coding and internet surfing to LINUX, not ui&ux. so the machine has need a dual boot fot this kind of spliting workflow. what can i do for this sutation can i go to dual boot or any other suggestion? (not affordable for mac). dose dual boot affects machine hardware?

[iap]

i have windows 10 for coding, ui&ux(adobe products) designs but for now i just realized internet surfing has some security addition software. the machine dose it also (bitdefender). i decide to move my workflows like coding and internet surfing to LINUX, not ui&ux. so the machine has need a dual boot fot this kind of spliting workflow. what can i do for this sutation can i go to dual boot or any other suggestion? (not affordable for mac). dose dual boot affects machine hardware?

[Samfisher]

No.  Hardware doesn't get damaged if you dual boot.  I don't understand the need to split it though, what actual reasons are you trying to use Linux over Windows since you're already on Windows?

[iap]

1 minute ago, Samfisher said:

No.  Hardware doesn't get damaged if you dual boot.  I don't understand the need to split it though, what actual reasons are you trying to use Linux over Windows since you're already on Windows?

no additional security software like bitdefender

[the99er]

Yes, dual booting is perfectly safe and doesn't effect the hardware.

 

To make things easier, I would first look at running linux in a vm so you get familiar with it.  This way it won't effect windows.  Here's a guide on how to do that using vmware:

 

https://www.osboxes.org/vmware-images/

 

Once you want to dual boot with linux, back everything up and I would suggest you buy an external hard drive so you can create a complete image of your windows install so you can restore it in case something goes wrong.  Here's a guide on how to do that:

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/

 

And once you're all set, check out this guide:

 

https://itsfoss.com/guide-install-linux-mint-16-dual-boot-windows/

[Samfisher]

1 minute ago, iap said:

no additional security software like bitdefender

Does bitdefender make it harder for you to work?  Why not just uninstall it?  But to answer your original question, no, dual booting is safe on hardware.

[DoctorNick]

8 minutes ago, iap said:

no additional security software like bitdefender

Just unistall bitdefender and use windows defender