Or like so… (/home is on another disk, no windows)
Cries in VR games.
This is how it is for me. I have Linux and Windows on their own drives.
I was triple booting a Hackintosh for a while and kept them ll on their own drives. You have to becuase Windows updates like to screw with the UEFI of the drve it’s install on at random time. Somehow, Window was less stable than OS X running on unapproved hardware.
I play ally single player games in fedora and multiplayer in windows. Lol
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Keep it contained in a VM, best hazardous containment.
How does it perform in gaming?
Decent enough, 10-15% overhead with VFIO, as long as games dont use batleye or eac
No Fortnite though, sadly
Oh no! Anyway
I know what you mean, but it’s a popular game. Epic suck.
I’m actually happy to say this is me, I recently installed Mint on a separate m.2 drive from windows, I wanted to just test it. I now find myself almost permanently on Mint, only going back to windows once to play a multiplayer game that isn’t on Linux yet.
Same. There are one or two things that don’t work on Linux yet or are buggy so I have Windows on a separate drive. I hardly use it though.
Best setup ever:
1)install Linux on one drive.
2)install Windows on a second drive.
3)boot from grub on the first drive and add an entry to boot Windows.
4)on a 3rd drive format it ext3 or optionally dos. Mount this puppy at /home or even /home/user.
5)don’t let windows touch you Linux home drive ever. Fuck windows and Microsoft. Both can suck my entire ass. If you ever need to share files between these systems use a pen drive. Microsoft doesn’t deserve you. Just use it as a last resort, do your thing and GTFO ASAP.I’ve got this setup, but optimized slightly:
- Install linux on one drive
LOL exactly!
Just a heads up to anyone reading this: Don’t format your home folder as FAT32/ntfs. Some stuff in there needs Linux specific permission bits and you might be limited in terms of maximum file size.
Consider mounting at
/home/usename/sharedor something instead if you want a shared drive.Does this work to prevent Windows from fucking your bootloader in all cases? Also I dont quite get the importance of step 4?
Step 4 is in my opinion the most clever and important part… Basically if you remove your home drive and boot, you get a vanilla computer. If you put it back, you get your computer back…ie, if you fuck up your Linux or windows install you just remove your home, reinstall blind and put your home back in…like you never left!!! Plus if your drive for the os dies, you can just make another! Or you can even take your home folder with you from one Linux box to a new one in the blink of an eye…a very slow blink… Hold on, I’m still pulling the drive…open slowly… Done! See? Easy!
That space at the end of 1) is doing some heavy lifting.
Time to install to OneDrive.
I used to run Windows on an esata drive that I would only power up occasionally in order to game, and it still somehow – and I don’t remember how – managed to ruin my computer.
Yeah, isolated home drive is the way to go. You just nuke Linux and windows and restart but your stuff is safe.
What’s wrong with a VM? I set up a Win10 instance in VMM right after I switched to Linux full time 10 months ago, but I had to use it exactly once to configure the RGB on my keyboard, and haven’t had a reason to boot it up since.
From what I understood, it runs on ‘Bare Metal’ which means that it theoretically should preform just as well as if you booted into it, with the only overhead being the *nix which is minimal.
I’m not saying it’s better, I’m honestly asking because I have very little experience with it.
I used to dual boot back in the day, but that was when I was still on HDDs and the long ass boot times meant I usually just stayed in Windows if I was planning on gaming that day.
That’s not how that works. I think your confusing bare metal with bare metal hypervisor. The latter is meant to mean a Type-1 Hypervisor, which KVM isn’t anyway but that’s another story.
Without GPU pass through you aren’t going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming. I’ve also had issues with KVM and libvirt breaking during sleep. It’s a lot more janky than you make out.
Well it does seem to be a somewhat confusing subject, so forgive me for getting it wrong. I must have misunderstood or misremembered the information I read when setting up the VM 10 months ago. As I said, I have very little experience with them and was honestly just asking if it’s not almost as good. I wasn’t trying to ‘make it out’ to be ‘not janky’.
According to Wiki, KVM " is a … virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor."
I wasn’t aware that there was a distinction between a Hypervisor and a ‘Type-1’ Hypervisor, but now I know so thank you for clearing that up for me.
Without GPU pass through you aren’t going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming.
According to this wiki, it seems like GPU passthrough is possible with KVM if your system supports IOMMU, mine does. But it looks like you also need a separate GPU to do that, so that answers my question about is it nearly as good as dual booting.
Every game I have attempted to run has just worked and they seem to run just as good as they did in Windows, so I guess I’m lucky I don’t need to really worry about dual booting or VM’s. I was just kind of wondering if it would work if I did need it, since that seemed like it would be a lot simpler than booting into a different operating system.
At least I made it fun for myself and my Windows-using sibling with whom I share a computer with. GRUB themes are cool! Also, I didn’t make it myself, you can find the theme here: https://www.pling.com/p/2275254This is so funny, The windows should be blue coloured and linux be red.
some icons there seems to be ai slop tho (not win and tux)
I didn’t even know grub could display images.
What happens on triple or more boot? Is it just a tree?
“Linux or windows”
- Linux
“Ubuntu or other?” - other
“Arch or other” - other
“Void or FreeBSD”
…
The text on the bottom left shows your selection to boot, the highlight only discerns between Windows and Linux. It also has its own highlight for the UEFI settings option.
Linux was already specified, so no BSD
- Linux
That is amazing
This is fantastic, I should do this
Also seems like it would be fun to do with rEFInd
Last time I booted into windows it wiped my grub partition. That was the day I decided I didn’t really need windows anymore.
I gave that up decades ago. If i can’t do it in Linux, i don’t need to do it.
sadly if you do PC gaming you are sometimes forced to use windows. If all your friends play League of Legends it doesn’t help you to say “but DotA 2 runs on Linux”, you need windows or you can’t play with your friends. Same goes for lots of Multiplayer games like GTA Online.
All the tools and stuff I agree. But for games there just is no option other than Windows sometimes
Every situation is different. I used to pc game from 90s on. I now just steam some games, console and VR the rest. CAD is done with FreeCAD, GIMP / 'shop, I only solo play games. My few friends from 40 years ago just do board games and disc golf.
Again situations are different. What i stated is accurate in my case.
I did never say anything against it, I just said why that’s not feasible for everyone.
BTW: If you don’t want to use FreeCAD, Fusion360 works completely fine in Linux using this helper. Again: this is not to say that you should not use FreeCAD, it’s just more information for other people reading this thread.
Windows in VM with vitio drivers and guest tools
And looking glass for good games performance for those select few titles that otherwise refuse
Me booting into windows just to play some gta online
I still don’t understand gta online. For me the whole point of the GTA games was that you could do anything without a single thought because you were the only real person involved. That disappears when you add other people.
Well i have to admit i’ve actually been treating gta online as a single player grind game for the most part. On ps4/5 i did play together with a friend of mine though, but playing in a lobby with randoms can definitely be frustrating, especially if you are a grinder because lots of people like blowing your shit up. I’m honestly still shocked that rockstar allows you to pretty much do everything in invite only lobbies now, because i remember having to do all kinds of tricks with my internet connection to get into a public lobby by myself.
for me it was that i was able to play with friends. i don’t have any, but if i did, we would’ve had some fun with heists.
