If you are dual booting Windows and any Linux distribution then I'm sure you would not have any trouble in accessing Windows files & folders in Linux because Linux distributions mount all Windows partition automatically. But what if you need to access any Linux files in your Windows OS then how to do that? This is what this article is all about. Windows does not mount any Linux partition automatically but we can do it. Let's see how to access Linux partitions (Ext4 etc.) in Windows.
I've recently had to help two different people recover files from a macbook via ubuntu. It ended up being surprisingly easy once I found the right command. I was glad I learned a bit about Ubuntu though rather than still relying on Windows. Microsoft doesn't make things easy...
You're right.. Spending a bit of more time in Linux will help you alot.