I had some issues the last few days where I'd either have Mint on a dual boot HD, migrated my Windows to a seperate drive, and lastly running Mint/Arch live via USB and somehow my Windows 10 bootloaders would somehow fuck up. I decided to scorch Earth the drives since I was distro hopping anyway, but I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong to prevent this again in the future since this will be like my 3rd time installing Windows on its own dedicated hd.
If the first time some dumb memory leakage across partitions on a shared drive happened, I can understand, but I'm trying to figure out what keeps causing issues with my bootloaders for Windows, it seems to trigger after using some form of Mint but I also ran Mint on that dual boot for like 9 months and wasn't an issue with my Win10 partitions then, booted everything through Grub at the time. Don't recall the first instances but I can tell you the last time everything, Linux and Windows, was UEFI.
I just want to know if running linux, a debian distro, or mint is known to interfere with Windows in any way or if this something else.
One other thing, I have Realtek drivers that read as boot devices in my BIOS, and after the last oddity where Windows refused to boot I noticed that boot drive name changed to something else Realtek related, I think I booted into the drive once just to see what it was. Probably a dumb play even if it was harmless.