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I just wanna use my hdr monitor bro
I have Windows on separate drive, but I haven’t used it in years (I mean, I launched it recently once to check if a hardware issue I was having was Linux specific — it wasn’t). I’m planning to delete it to reclaim the space, but I think I have some files I want to get from there but I don’t want to go through the entire file system to find them, so it’s just sitting there lol
I haven’t used windows since 2023, or so, but what’s the problem with using Windows alongside Linux? Sometimes you just need Windows, and Wine isn’t always the answer. Although, I must admit, Linux gaming has reached the point where Windows is needed (probably?) only for games with anti-cheat.
hdr as well as anti-cheat though for me it’s just that really as I don’t play multiplayer so once hdr works on mint windows is getting nuked
Sorry but using less Windows via dual boot setup > Not using Linux at all.
Whatever works for people is the right choice.
Windows to my linux partition:
(this is why I wont dual boot)
It only ever exists as a VM, and I boot it up rarely as it deserves this purgatory.
Anyone know of some good automation to keep Windows VMs up to date?
WSUS
I remember one time after checking out Ubuntu when I went back to Windows, my PC would ask if I wanted to boot into Windows or Windows.
The drive isn’t even hooked up I swear!
lol Mine is hooked up. But don’t worry, I fucked up the boot loader options on install and can’t load it anyways
I have some software that doesnt work with wine or anything else the like Ive tried, and doesnt seem to have a linux equivalent that I can find. Ive only been using linux a few months now, so maybe theres some other options that Im missing, but how else does one deal with that apart from booting back into the old windows install whenever I need that specific software?
Have you tried a virtual machine?
Theyve looked a bit daunting to set up, so not just yet. But isnt that effectively the same thing, still running windows for those programs just without having to actually sign out of the linux partition to do it?
Yeah, but it’s nice to just be able to use your windows software without needing to bootup windows, and then after you’ve finished reboot into linux.
Isn’t vm performance terrible?
It’s technically there on a separate drive entirely, but I haven’t touched it in at least a year. Probably gonna have to when I need to brush up for my cert renewal though
I wish I could delete that partition for good, but my computer grqphics professor forces me to write code for DirectX instead of Vulkan.
Run Windows in a VM
Any software that doesn’t work work in a VM doesn’t deserve to work at all
Naw, separate machines. One for VR, opening my office Access files, the Adobe suite. And another one with Linux I use for most everything. Dual booting is sometimes problematic.
