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  • Other systems should not be able to see your data on a Linux install as long as the disk is encrypted, which is proposed during the install of many distros.

    AFAIU, ransomware will try to lock all devices, USB drives, etc, so no, your Linux install is not safe from that if it is on the same machine. Even machine on the same network might be at risk.

    How to prevent ? Backup! Loosing your entire machine data should not be an issue but just a matter of re-installing the OS and recovering your data from a backup. Have at least two backup, including one outside of your house.

    About dualbooting though… Putting Windows + anything else on a single drive is a really bad idea and Windows WILL try and take over it, at least breaking the boot partition. More concerning, and it actually happened to me recently: when putting a Linux on one disk and Windows on an other in the same machine, the Windows somehow still managed to break the Linux boot partition…

    So if you can afford it and really want to have both OS, you should try and have two machines or at least install Linux on a drive that you can easily unplug.

    I hope this will be helpful, good luck!