Pop OS needs a different EFI partition?

[Gat Pelsinger]

Need to try Pop OS and dual booting it with Windows. My default EFI partition is too small (it asks for 1 gigabyte??). I looked a tutorial and they made a separate partition for the EFI, while still having the main EFI partition. I just wanted to know if this is safe (like I really don't want to destroy my Windows Boot Manger or my files on NTFS drives), but I also wanted to know why is there this requirement? The way I saw it till this time was to have grub sit nicely on the main EFI partition and actually fit one it, and not require a separate 1 GB partition. What does it need that much space for? 

[igormp]

1 hour ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

I just wanted to know if this is safe

It is.

1 hour ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

but I also wanted to know why is there this requirement?

It's not, they're just asking for that size for precaution. My EFI partition is currently using less than 200MB with 2 different kernels in there (my default one and a LTS as a fallback).

2 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

The way I saw it till this time was to have grub sit nicely on the main EFI partition and actually fit one it

Yes, you can just use a single partition.

2 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

What does it need that much space for?

Just for good measure, as I said before, so you won't have issues during upgrades or if you try to install many different kernels.