Dual Booting Windows and Ubuntu Sucks
I dual booted windows and ubuntu. The disadvantage is that its harder to edit these operating systems once installed.
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There's certainly a hassle with more than 2 OSes. That said, removing an OS is easier. Delete the partition, delete its folder in the ESP and remove the boot entry in the UEFI if it doesn't do so automatically. That's it.
It really isn't difficult to dual boot a computer, and it equally isn't difficult to remove or reinstall one (or more) of the operating systems in a multi boot environment. You also don't need to disconnect or reconnect drives when you decide to swap operating systems. KSKRoyal has tons of tutorials doing dual boot windows/linux setups, and also shows how to remove the linux distro afterwards inside a Windows environment usually. You should honestly go and check them out, cause the information in this video is fairly misleading on the difficulty involved in this task.
The easiest way to tell which os in on what drive, is to looking at the partition table. It will be in order of what was set before it.
If you installed Windows first. It would go EFI > /:C
For Linux it should go EFI/Boot > Swap > Root/home But sometimes it will go EFI/Boot > Root/home > Swap. Depends how it was set up at the point of install. EFI/Boot is always first.
So if you intend to always keep windows on your system, install it first. Then in a partition tool, it should always be the first 2 partitions on the disk, so you can usually safely delete anything after those 2 initial partitions.
If you intend to always keep Ubuntu on the computer, install that first and then windows. Then you just ignore the first 3 partitions.
If you do install on separate drives, then all you need to do is wipe which ever drive you no longer need that particular OS on. No removing from the system or anything. A windows installer ISO will make it very easy to tell which drive is which by a numbering scheme during the setup process when selecting the installation drive. More information can be gained by opening a CMD prompt inside the installer and using "diskpart"
The "lsblk" command in a terminal under Linux will often give you enough information to figure out what OS is on what disk. If you have access to a linux desktop environment, gui based partition tools should make it easier as well.
I hope that you have a deeper look into how to dual boot and how to swap/remove operating systems from a dual boot environment. As it is far easier than you make out in this video.