Installing linux on top of another next to windows 10. Do I need to shaman?

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mystique_man2016-05-11 10:48:05

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mystique_man, 2016-05-11 10:48:05

Greetings to those who read this.
I have a laptop with uefi. On it is win10 (which created a bunch of partitions, small ones).
Additionally, there is linux mint (grub is installed in the uefi partition that was made by win10. In general, everything works, there are no problems.
But: it is planned to demolish linux mint and install another distribution kit. Question number 1:
1. is it enough to simply demolish the mint system + swap partition with subsequent installation new OS to the same unallocated space (with partition creation during installation) and specifying the same uefi partition for the bootloader
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Optional question: can Windows be installed on uefi machines in one partition? When before installation there is one ntfs partition, which is indicated for everything at once. Win10 on mbr can do this. I'm not sure if this is possible with uefi, and even more so to put grub there later. A bunch of small partitions that win10 breeds are very annoying.

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hubramubr, 2016-05-11
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Win does not produce anything. You can specify during installation that backup partitions, etc. are not needed.
Lin produces even more - according to the mind, a separate swap, root, home, usr, efi is needed.
If you use uefi, then you still need at least small sections for this business. For all OS. In MacOSX, in a completely different axis, this is also the case.