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It’s pretty easy. Your main issue, if you are installing alongside windows, is that windows is known to wipe out your linux drive after updates.
My advice is to stick with one OS per computer, but I know that is not feasible for some people so if you have to dual boot just try to keep backups of whatever you have because you can run into data loss from windows.
Wait, are you saying even if Windows and Linux are on separate drives, that can still happen?
AFAIK, windows updates won’t wipe your Linux partition, but it will override your bootloader. This makes it appear as if your Linux partition has been wiped, but it’s still there. You just need to repair the bootloader from a live CD/USB.