[deleted] I figured that there must be additional settings and managed to do that 🙂
But this terminal commands always require some password and I just can't type-I begin to write it and I can't-the only thing I can do is press enter and abort the command-I experienced such problems in various Linux distros on VMs...so this is from the stupid linux-y things...
I remember I could do something about it, but what is it?
Update: If it is truly that it's for security reasons and you have to just type the password then the command is not working-I write the command...then write the password and enter-there was no text informing what happened or whatever-I am just on new line to type other commands.

      dbarron Well it is absolutely possible, but I am still booting automatically in Solus, instead of W10. I have no options to choose from when booting. What should I do next?

        sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 5

        See if that helps you (reboot after successful) and watch closely (5 seconds isn't long) 🙂

        That's odd. You should have got a 5 second window to choose which bootloader (text screen).

          dbarron So there is something wrong either with the command or again with fucking HDDs, formats and so on.
          Let me give you a bunch of information-maybe some of it will be valuable:
          I was with W7 and used the free update to W10-as we've seen W10 is on MBR HDD.
          Later I added the second HDD-2TB...after long issues it's now where the bootloader of Solus is and it's GPT HDD.
          So is there a problem, because;
          1) The 2 bootloders are on different HDDs.
          2) The different HDDs are differently formated-one is GPT and the other MBR.
          3) Even the format of bootloaders are different-Solus is on FAT32, while W10 on NTFS.

            Yeah, I think you're only suppossed to have one bootloader. Just multiple entries in the EFI.

              dbarron So the question remains-what do I do xD
              Simply deleting W10 bootloader will result in unabillity of booting in in my opinion. Because I can't display both OS with 2 bootloaders, I probably would't with just one 🙂
              Or I should delete it and then run the sudo commands, but what if it fails?!

                What you needed to do was install the bootloader from solus on the same disk and partition as the Windows one was using, so they live together. Otherwise (as you stand now), you have to choose the proper disks as boot device every time you want to change which boots.
                I can't really tell you how to do this, because I never really retain these things. I just do them (and I'm visually oriented..I have to do/see it).

                  algent Nothing really-UEFI ST2...P0...UEFI OS P0...it's all the same-only P1 is W10 and that's it.

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                    dbarron The case is Emperor has W10 installed in MBR. Solus is installed in EFI.

                    Emperor It's normal that it doesn't display the password (not even asterisks) for security reasons. No output means usually that the command is successful.

                    Emperor Solus uses GRUB only in MBR mode. So either you have to boot into Windows via your motherboard's boot menu (which works as intended) or reformat your Solus HDD and reinstall in MBR mode.

                    In my honest opinion the best option would be to reinstall W10 in EFI, and select the OS via motherboard's boot menu, as that's the intended way.

                            [deleted] Reinstalling W10 would mean that I will lose all programs-this is just too much work-I prefer to boot from W10 for my father and when I need to use my PC I will boot via F12...
                            Although are you sure both of them must be only MBR or GPT?
                            On multiple places there is that list of commands that you mount different bootloaders, then do some commands, from which the final one is update-grub(your favorite xD).
                            I may be completely wrong, but it sounds logical to me to show the locations of different bootloaders to GRUB manually and tell it to give you choice when you boot(like Solus-dev/sda....; W10-dev/sdb...; if choose bootloader 1-start Solus, if choose bootloader 2-start W10).
                            https://askubuntu.com/questions/681422/grub-menu-not-showing-with-dual-boot-uefi-mode-installation

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                                Emperor Well, then you can just change your motherboard to boot from P1 by default, so it would boot W10 in case you don't press F12.

                                    [deleted] Yes I did it and it will work-still though I am interested in learning this staff-a friend of mine said that when he was 14, he had 3 OS on one drive-this should be some 20 years ago-don't know if some of the main things today were available back than :0

                                      dbarron Need to sudo clr-boot-manager update iirc after that to get it to set.

                                        Wow what a brutal journey and much learned. This is how it works for many sometimes including me. You made it to the other side. Great people helping here, too.

                                        I just downloaded waterfox, but I have to remember where I put it and I can run it by opening folders and clicking on the icon-is there a way to put waterfox where other apps are and create shortcut-an icon to open it just like regular apps.
                                        P.S. I used the script provided in Joplin website and it's working just fine 🙂 It automatically installed the app and it's looking just like the others. That's what I want to do with Waterfox-I need separate browsers-one for accounts and the other for browsing.
                                        Waterfox was downloaded in temporary files, which I think would be deleted so I moved it into downloaded.
                                        I am confused by the file manager for the root and home partition-is there a folder just like in W10 like program files-and that is where the apps are stored with their settings, libraries and so on?
                                        Don't know how Joplin and waterfox will update though. Waterfox has an icon for updating, but I suppose it will run it automatically by itself.