My whole Desktop System is working great with Fedora 43 but I am now thinking about installing a seperate SSD with Windows 11 just for gaming.
Is this a safe thing to do ? I want to keep Windows as separate from my Linux as possible. Will the installation break my grub loader or is it relativley safe to do ?
Should be fine, and it’s what I’d do!
I’d disconnect the Fedora drive completely though before installing Windows so Fedora’s /boot/efi partition doesn’t get touched; Windows creates its own on the other SSD, and later either Fedora’s GRUB can pick it up and include it on boot menu alongside Fedora, or BIOS can boot Windows Boot Loader or Fedora/GRUB directly.
There are several ways to go about it.
Personally, I went the other direction and installed Fedora on a separate SSD after Windows 11 was installed.
As has been noted, it’s absolutely doable, although you might want to consider using a Windows 11 VM instead. Alternatively, you might try using Wine.
If a VM or Wine are not desired options, there are some issues with installing Windows after Fedora that are addressed here
Please let us know if you’re having issues or need help with the suggestions (by me or others) and we’ll see what we can do.
This Sounds great ! Thank you.
Thank you very much. This is encouraging 
I did this today. Everything worked as I had imagined. The only real struggle was to create a working bootable windows 11 stick under Linux o.O