I dual booted a machine and I had to even unplug my windows drive to get it to install a Linux distro on the other drive. Windows really does not like playing nice with dual boot systems so it is always best to keep Windows on its own drive.

Same! I’m not at my computer at the moment so I can’t check the name of the scanning app i use but yeah, works perfectly. I use a Brother printer as well which I also can’t remember the model name of.

Exactly

Honestly, if you can spare the cash, I’d say get a console. Maybe a cheap one secondhand instead of dual booting. Especially if it’s for the kids, probably easier for them to just use the console instead of the crazy machine with TWO operating systems. Lol