It honestly makes me wonder why i keep using windows on my main desktop if proton allows playing most anything i play

    • provomeister@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Bought a second drive to run Linux on my gaming PC. It’s been a month and I haven’t had the need to boot into Windows yet. I had some initial troubles during installation but it’s smooth sailing since. After owning the Steam Deck for 1+ year and already running Linux on my laptop, it was the last step towards ditching Windows entirely.

  • President_Pyrus@feddit.dkEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I just bought a new NVME SSD as I need to reinstall Windows anyway. I am seriously considering at least dual booting Windows and Linux or just going full Linux at once. You guys in here and the Linux community on Lemmy show me that it is possible to escape Windows without too much trouble, even for a Linux newb like me.

    Okay, I am not a complete newb, I have set up a few Raspberry Pis and do run a unRAID server, but I have never seriously used Linux as a daily driver on my desktop or laptop.

    • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Dual boot on separate disks is pretty nice. You can even load up your Windows install inside a VM on your Linux drive

        • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Using QEMU/Virt-Manager you can just create a new VM and instead of creating a virtual disk you just input the path to your drive manually. In my case it’s mounted at /dev/sdb

          This will pass your full drive to the VM and Windows will just boot up like magic

          Edit: If you already have a Windows VM I would assume you could just edit it and change from virtual drive to your full Windows drive instead. I don’t think you have to make a new one

      • President_Pyrus@feddit.dkEnglish
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        11 months ago

        That sounds genius. The new drive is a 2TB NVME and the old is a 1TB NVME so that is totally a possibility.

        • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I am using single GPU VFIO passthrough and it’s good enough to game on, especially if you also pin your CPU threads in the VM. You will lose a little bit of performance but if you really need that extra power you can just switch to bare metal Windows using dual boot

          If you don’t want the full bloated Windows I can recommend that you check out ReviOS