Dell recommends installing BIOS updates whenever they release them. That said, the last time I updated my laptop's BIOS, it was a dual boot Windows 7/Linux Mint machine. The BIOS update messed something up with my boot sector, to the point where GRUB didn't work and I had to do a fresh format/reinstall of Windows. My laptop is currently pure Windows 7.
So, the reason why I'm asking is that I'm tempted to turn my laptop into a dual boot Windows/linux machine again so I can do all of my web development on one machine. I don't have linux installed anywhere at the moment, and it's pretty ghetto doing PHP work by uploading files to a shared host for testing. I'm just afraid that another BIOS update will force me to rebuild my laptop again.
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