For years I setup dual boot configurations on my machines until one day it became very clear to me: I hated it. So now I just use Linux for everything and use VMWare to run Windows when the need ...
Huh, didn't know mkfs did or did not do TRIM discards. Interesting. But that still isn't going to do you much good in the long (or even short-to-medium) run, for most use cases, unless you also mount ...