“Mozilla now makes most of its almost $600 million in annual revenue from promoting Chrome as the default search engine on its home page.”

Proofreading FTW.

Expect a wave of fingers cut off and eyes picked together with a stolen phone? Or kidnappings more likely?

I’ve been happily dualbooting Win10/Mint for years on the very machine I’m writing from. Zero issues with boots, GRUB, no need for flatpaks, both systems work fine, both configs heavily customized.

What was your starting point? Having Windows on the machine already and installing Ubuntu on top of it? (that would be commonly regarded as the ‘correct’ order) If not, and you can afford to scrap everything, that’s what I’d go for. If yes, and it’s Ubuntu that’s messing up your dual boot, I’d see if Windows can be restored after removing Ubuntu, and then try a different distro (I’d go with Mint Cinnamon, it normally provides smooth install experience).

OK specs overall but too big for me and no headphone jack, I wouldn’t get one.

This. You’d be surprised how much good stuff you can find on those and similar services. Once I learned about them, I practically stopped torrenting.