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Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
Why would it stop being a thing? I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had needed Windows for a specific videogame or program, i would still be dual-booting today.
Virtualization?
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
It doesn't hurt to have intact alternate OS's ready to go.
I might only use one Linux regularly but there's a devuan and a vanilla windows (+patches from ~1 year/6mo. ago) - it's really no big deal leaving them be. It's just disk space.
windows will probably get nuked soon cause it's on a gen4 NVME - not using that is a waste.
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
I think there's a way to fix it but I had to disable secure boot to work this week.
I've had way more issues with windows 11 than with linux Mint. Like way more.
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
I have an Intel NUC that has it's original Windows (10) install on it's internal spinning rust drive, and Ubuntu on it's NVME SSD (and a pair of USB drives in software Raid 1)
It's the Windows box I keep around for odd but specific tasks like the running the 3D wing and airfoil simulation software I have, or the CNC mill firmware update tool that only runs Windows. It's also got a few Windows only 3D modelling tools and GCode creation tools that I occasionally need for the laser cutter or CNC mill or one of the 3D printers.
99.9% of it's time is spent booted into Linux running Emby and PiHole and Home Bridge and doing file server duties.
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
I also keep windoze in as minimal space as I can using linux full-time to update lenovo firmware on my tb4 dock and system periodically as I've been burned with firmware updates under linux, so 128gb of a disk for windoze is usually a small sacrifice as a fallback.
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
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Why would it stop being a thing? I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had needed Windows for a specific videogame or program, i would still be dual-booting today.
> Why would it stop being a thing? Virtualization?
For me, it's way easier to keep a "hardware Windows machine" available than to debug why these things don't quite work right in a virtualised environment every time I need to use em.
Yeah it broke my Linux Mint. I run mint all day while developing and then switch to windows 11 to game every once in a while. I think there's a way to fix it but I had to disable secure boot to work this week. I've had way more issues with windows 11 than with linux Mint. Like way more.
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
Why would it stop being a thing? I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had needed Windows for a specific videogame or program, i would still be dual-booting today.