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Have a think about how you want to arrange your data. While you can access windows partitions and files under Linux (and vise versa), it's better not to be constantly be mounting your windows C drive from another OS. Plus, if you're mid-update, or had to restart suddenly, windows will happily mark your drive as read-only.
I use 4 partitions for a dual boot. Sizes are based on a 1TB drive.
This way, Windows OS is separate, main storage is accessible to both without tripping over permissions, linux root drive is separate from storage so reinstalling isn't so painful if something goes very wrong.
This is probably some of the best advice here. Keep the drives (if possible, if not partitions) each OS is on separate from the other. Have a 3rd drive (or partition) as the bulk of your storage that both can see and use.
I'd also suggest reversing your plan of mainly using windows and hopping to linix when you want to and make it Linux default and windows when you have to. You'll learn more immersing yourself in Linux that way, and you'll find whatever issues or software that force you back to windows (if any). The other way around you'll feel that Linux doesn't do anything you need it to and likely spend very little time in it at all. Habits are hard to change.