I am giving up on VM Gaming

Honestly, the future is probably going to be something like Amazon Luna, where you don’t run the game locally. Cloud streaming is going to be the norm unless we start pushing back.

That would probably kill modding, and possibly kill future gaming innovation

Yes, that would work the same way! However, I was on an HEDT system, with no iGPU and many PCIe lanes to spare.

Ok. This whole blog post is weird.

I am currently using unraid as my server and used it for gaming as well ( though deck mostly took over that particular distraction ). In a sense, playing in VM was the initial draw. I stayed for everything else.

But the points the author is making kinda contradict themselves. Before I go to the actual claims within the post, please be aware that gaming these days is not exactly cheap. Technically, neither is running decent NAS, or server or anything these days. Not really. However, if you are trying to trying to do VM gaming ( and gaming is generally resource intensive ) and run NAS and docker and whatever else tickles your fancy, you cannot reasonably complain, because, well, you set it all up..

Claims:

Again, this whole thing is backwards. Unraid is not about budget or space. If anything, doing it well may end up being more expensive especially if you want to do gaming, AND docker, AND mebbe CV and random testing VMs and backups and NAS.

Does it sound more like an actual user issue? I might not be a heavy user, but there are very few times, I run things at all times. I can't tell if the user is complaining that unraid does not do schedule resources for them ( turn off things as it sees fit ) or expects that docker magically requires less resources.

About the only semi-valid complaint, but here it is not even an unraid issue. It is gaming ecosystem issue, but I am willing to accept it, because there is really no solving without gamers as a group actually agreeing on maximum level of bs they are willing to accept.

I suspect that the author had some sufficiently custom setup, because while none of my stuff is edge tech, I never ran into a problem that did not, at the end of the day, result from somewhere between the user and keyboard. You do have to learn a lot ( if you did not know anything about virtualization beforehand ), but that is true of most linux distributions in general. By comparison to where it used to be, the ecosystem now is fairly user friendly.

Semi-reasonable issue, but the appropriate approach here is multi-gpu rig, which, again, if you buy into unraid for VM gaming, is, maybe expected is too strong, but, but complaining about it is like pouring cheap leaded gasoline to a lambo.

Here I am willing to agree despite not running into that issue sine I use dedicated box for more intensive gpu stuff that is not gaming.

I would recommend dual booting over doing this. Microsoft is user hostile and the only thing they care about Windows users is how much ad revenue they can get from shoving AI down their users throats.

I recommend doing a dual boot. I personally do a multi drive dual boot, because again, Microsoft is user hostile and will sometimes randomly just blow away the Linux EFI partition if they're both on the same drive. . If you have them on seperate drives and boot to the Linux drive by default you can then select Windows from the GRUB OS chooser menu. This way when Windows updates and makes changes the EFI partition its only doing it to its own drive.

This will give you the best of both worlds, the privacy and user freedom of Linux, and the ability to game on the Microslop.