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Valve officially ends Steam support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.techspot.com)

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[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 10 months ago

This will depend on the Linux distro, some of the installers make it very clear which drive the bootloader will go to, and others won't - more so in the case of BIOS/MBR based systems.

Systems that use UEFI should only have a bootloader where the /boot partition (which should have the partition type "ESP", generally labeled in the installer) - however during the installation of this it may modify your PC's boot order to try to boot from this first. Both legacy BIOS and UEFI systems should have a way to change the boot priority however, so that this won't be a problem.

Sadly it's a bit hard to be specific since every distro's installer is different, and I haven't used Linux Mint in 8+ years to know what their installer's behavior is.