backslidr I'll check it out. It would make things a little easier. Thanks!
Do you have any interest in an idea that might even serve your purpose better than dual-booting, be much easier to get a successful outcome, and offer several useful advantages over a dual-boot setup? It works so well that I haven't fought with a dual-boot scenario in decades, yet three of my computers here can run Solus and Windows at the same time, switching from one to the other with a single mouse click.
If you've ever used virtualization, you already know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, I'll be glad to tell you more about how to use it, but first, here are some advantages you would gain.
(1) As I mentioned, there's no need to run one system or the other system. You can run one system and the other at the same time. No time wasted rebooting. No problem copying text from one system to the other. You can copy from one, and paste to the other, or drag from one and drop onto the other.
(2) You're not limited to just 2 systems available at the same time. Depending on the capabilities of your hardware, you could run Solus, Manjaro, and Windows, and have them all available simultaneously.
(3) At any time you can create a "snapshot" of a virtual machine, saving its exact state at that moment in time, and then continue working with it. Later, you might save another snapshot of its new state, and so on. Whenever you find yourself with a problem, you can easily return to the previous state just by selecting its name from a list. Or you could go back to the state where that system was first installed, where it was first configured, where you installed certain applications on it, where you created your first document with it, etc.
(4) Obviously, the virtual machine (VM) won't quite offer the full performance of a system running directly on the hardware, but in my experience, a single VM runs nearly as well as the host system it's installed on. As you have more VMs running on a system, each will be a bit less performant, but in many cases still quite usable, and still providing features above and beyond what the host, alone, provides. Only you can decide how many VMs your present hardware will support at one time.
(5) Virtual machines are, essentially, files on the host system. When they're not running, they just take up a little space on your HDD or SSD. And usually not much space, unless they're full of documents or loaded down with installed applications. When I was distro-hopping ... before I met Solus ... I often had as many as five or six VMs available at one time with different versions of Linux, though not necessarily running more than one or two at a time. Many need less than 20 GB to be useful, and when they're no longer wanted, you can simply tell the VM manager to remove them and free all the storage they were using.
There's more to like, such as being able to set up a virtual network for several VMs and their host, but this should be enough to find out whether you're interested at all. If you are, I'll go into more detail about installing a virtual machine manager (like VirtualBox) and creating VMs with it. Let me know if you're not tired of reading all this by now.