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Dual booting PopOS seems pretty rough though, with risks to the windows installation and bootloader
Made this comment before I saw your other comment...
Dual booting creates all sort of complications
I raw dogged my situation and when dual booting failed I said fuxk satya the creep and just made A LOT of personal computing changes
With that being said, don't be me. Ease into it
I went back to Windows10 so I could dual-boot with Secure Boot turned off. My system will dual boot popOS or Debian without issue. Just make sure to install windows first.