Installing Electrum twice

[OmegaStarScream]

Assuming that I'm dual booting Linux and Windows. If I ever install Electrum on my Windows and install on Linux, would that make the first one (from windows) get erased and replaced by the one I installed in Linux? I'm not sure exactly where Linux store the files but I do know that Windows put them in AppData. (both OS are installed in the same disk)

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[Patatas]

Assuming that I'm dual booting Linux and Windows. If I ever install Electrum on my Windows and install on Linux, would that make the first one (from windows) get erased and replaced by the one I installed in Linux? I'm not sure exactly where Linux store the files but I do know that Windows put them in AppData. (both OS are installed in the same disk)

There would be two separate installs definitely.
 - Remember windows and linux have two separate file systems when they're initially installed ? NTFS and the other logical drives ? That answers it.
 -Linux store the files wherever you want it to be,sudo into the directory and proceed with the 'apt install' process.
 
Taken from their documentation : Electrum stores your wallet file in

On Linux:

Home Folder
Go -> Location and type ~/.electrum

 

[kolloh]

Yeah, the Windows and Linux installs would be completely separated. They don't use the same file system or structure to store files so you have nothing to worry about.

Linux stores it in your home directory which is ~/.electrum and Windows stores them within the AppData folder.

[pooya87]

~ (both OS are installed in the same disk)

i'm sorry but all i can think of is "what does this mean?" do you mean as in 1 Hard disk or is it in the same partition, as in installing both windows and Linux on drive C?
because if they are in the same Drive, i would like to ask you how did you do it?
and if they are in separate drives (aka partitions) then i guess i am confused about your confusion about replacing the one in Windows since it is in a different partition.

[OmegaStarScream]

I appreciate the answers guys, and when I said they are both in the same drive, I meant the physical drive mostly because clearly, I will have to create separate partitions in order to make the dual booting works.

[HCP]

I appreciate the answers guys, and when I said they are both in the same drive, I meant the physical drive mostly because clearly, I will have to create separate partitions in order to make the dual booting works.

So there is your answer... for all intents and purposes, both of the OSes won't even know the other one exists (ignoring mounting of foreign partitions etc)...

So, just like the OSes, while both of your Electrum installations will be on the same physical disk, they'll be residing on separate partitions... and won't know the other installation exists.

UNLESS, you specifically set it up so that your wallet.dat lives on a common partition... in which case you could access the same wallet from either OS.