Hello there. So I decided that I am going to install Solus alongside with my W10.
I have 2 HDDs: 1TB(W10) and 2TB.
From the first try it seemed like there was no partition manager in the Solus installer, so I created a FAT32 partition that is 512MB in size and 200GB empty partition for the linux install.
Well the same story again-I can only delete the whole HDD and install Solus(which is unaccaptable, because I have data on it) or check advanced disk configuration only for the 1TB disk and even then I can not do anything with it. So really my only option is to format the whole HDD. Then I watched video about installing Ubuntu and this time I tried with deleting the empty partition and leaving empty space-the results were exactly the same. And on top of all as I understand from the videos there must be an auto option to install alongside W10 which hadn't appeared to me.
So here are picture 1 and picture 2 to see what I see.
What should I do?

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    Emperor yup. The installer has no partition manager in itself (BUT has an option to set mount points). Instead you should use GParted (bundled in the live environment) for partitioning. You most likely should use the same EFI partition as with Windows and only assign swap and / mount points (/home is optional) to partitions you've created.

        [deleted] Interesting why the distro ,,designed for home computing'' has no partition manager...
        Well I don't know how to use or install?? GParted. Also someone recommended me to install Solus on the other HDD, not the same as W10. I also have no idea what this /home is.
        Is there a tutorial for this?

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          Well, there's this gist made by all-mighty @kyrios

          GParted, a partition manager, ships on the Live ISO. It is also installed OOTB on Solus installations. We have thorough documentation on creation of ESPs and always recommend you do free space creation via Windows 10 first, since it can better shuffle its own files than GParted can.

          We can only install when there is free space to do so as part of the dual-boot scenario. We also literally state in the manual partitioning section to use Gparted, see here.