You already have two answers but let me add one more: completely smooth here. I’d been dual booting for many years and rarely have any issue (besides Windows update occasionally borking the bootloader and having to reinstall Grub)

But these days gaming on Linux is so smooth I really don’t need Windows any more. I still have it on my machine, dual booting, but I haven’t actually booted into Windows in at least 6 months.

shim_lock protocol not found appears to be a result of secure boot failing. One simple solution would be to go to the BIOS and disable SecureBoot. You can also try to configure it to recognize your efi but I’d turn it off first and see if that helps.

That’s fair, in all honesty it’s a great tool. But in the end it’s not worth it.

Far be it from me to criticize people pirating this software but after some period of adjustment I’m very happy with the open source alternatives to most of these.

Hehe I also use Gmail only as my sign up box for all kinds ok of nonsense. It’s busting with junk mail.