For the history I did try, and indeed seems to work well without a prime tower. I am doing some 4-color prints on 20 nozzle with 0.08 layers, 50% flushing volume, still looking great.
To be honest I haven't tried without it (didn't want to risk the rest of the filament if it would turn out poorly), but I reduce the size to 15mm/15mm or so, plus flushing into infill/supports, and has been ok so far.
I'll try without it sometime when I print for my kid and don't care as much :)
You don't need to reinstall. You could keep the old partition and format it and add it as a new volume while keeping the current installation.
If the windows volume is to the right of the Linux volume, you could also boot a live-usb and drop the windows partition and then extend the Linux partition then extend the Linux filesystem to cover all disk space. If it is to the left, you can do the same but you'd need to move the partition and reinstall the bootloader as well.
A backup would be mandatory If you don't really know what you would be doing with the above, however. But if you do, it's a lot easier and faster than to rebuild everything from scratch.
Well yeah, I get the sentiment, but it would be one vulnerability away from sharing my tracked information to malicious actors. Would also probably need elevated permissions to be able to do its job.
Not worth the risk in my opinion. Same as I don't want kernel level anticheats and yada yada.
For the history I did try, and indeed seems to work well without a prime tower. I am doing some 4-color prints on 20 nozzle with 0.08 layers, 50% flushing volume, still looking great.
Takes ages, though :/