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If you pick a recent distro (2022 or newer), sure. Make sure to install it in UEFI mode, though, BIOS mode will randomly break no matter what operating system you dual boot. The problem only occurs with two year old versions of Grub.

If the USB installer boots, the distro should boot too. If it doesn’t, well, find a better distro, I suppose.

Also, if you boot Windows from the Linux bootloader and have Bitlocker (disk encryption) enabled, make sure you know the recovery key. You will need to enter it once (only once) to make Windows trust the Linux bootloader enough to unlock the disks.

I’d also recommend doing the disk resizing in Windows for this reason (unless you’re putting in a second SSD). Linux can resize most Windows partitions these days, but Windows itself struggles to keep its filesystem intact when doing advanced resize stuff and their driver isn’t even based on reversed engineering.

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