You can partition or preferably install a second drive and install Linux on that. You can then access your files on the other drive/partition and connect your Steam library to your existing library without any issues*. Want to go back to Windows? Just boot into it and your updated files will be there.
*Only thing is you’ll need to either disable fast boot on Windows or shut down by using the restart option or else the Windows drive is locked to read only.
What kind of files are you wanting to keep?
You can partition or preferably install a second drive and install Linux on that. You can then access your files on the other drive/partition and connect your Steam library to your existing library without any issues*. Want to go back to Windows? Just boot into it and your updated files will be there.
*Only thing is you’ll need to either disable fast boot on Windows or shut down by using the restart option or else the Windows drive is locked to read only.
Word documents photos videos and such. Basically all the sbitbive hoarded over the years that i don’t want to get rid of by accident