This is the second time I tried installing Mint on my PC. First time the installer stalled and went nowhere for 40 minutes, second time I’m missing the first option for dual booting. My trust in Linux isn’t the highest right now.
Edit: I was able to get it working. I just shrunk my D: drive by 100GB, for some reason that made it work.
Open windows and shrink your boot partition by whatever you want Linux to take. Leave the space unallocated and delete any secondary partitions you may have already created in the first failed installation.
Then, start the Linux installation again and see if that works.
If you have a second drive that’s a much better choice because windows will regularly fuck up the Linux part of the bootloader and good luck fixing it.
Go log into windows, backup the second drive files somewhere else and format it, then install Linux there.
I just hop into my uefi menu on boot and select the windows disk to load whenever required instead of a dual boot bootloader because I know windows will not damage it
I tried that, but I had to shrink the second disk instead. Something about unmovable files on the C: drive that I couldn’t get rid of. But now that I’ve shrunk the D: drive it just seems to work. I got the missing option back and everything.
the unmovable files are swap and hiber files, there are tutorials on how to delete those