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Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
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Re: Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
#22Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
absolutely, its very often the gateway to a swap over.
I haven't seen it used much in the enterprise though.
Re: Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
#23Yeah 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.
As a former dual-booter, there's surprisingly few games that still require Windows. You might consider going full Linux.
I would say the opposite. Surprisingly many games still require Windows, at least on Steam. I can sometimes find something interesting that runs on a Linux too, but all the indie games are usually Windows only.
Re: Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
#24Yeah 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.
As a former dual-booter, there's surprisingly few games that still require Windows. You might consider going full Linux.
I have consider it and done it before. I largely play StarCraft 2 and I simply want the maximum frame rate..I've played sc2 on Linux before but I kinda like the simplicity of just booting into windows, the feeling of having the max performance, and also some games I play do run anti cheat stuff that doesn't work on Linux.
Overall Linux gaming is pretty sweet tho I agree. Lutris is incredible.
Plus I like the work/play divide that booting into windows provides
Re: Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a former dual-booter, there's surprisingly few games that still require Windows. You might consider going full Linux.
I would say the opposite. Surprisingly many games still require Windows, at least on Steam. I can sometimes find something interesting that runs on a Linux too, but all the indie games are usually Windows only.
They probably run good with steams' windows emulation layer
Re: Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
#26Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
People are doing this a lot on handhelds like rog ally and others systems to flip between windoze-only games and those that work under Bazzite or other steam deck-ish distributions fine for improved performance and frame rates over windoze. Usually the DRM-laden vermin require windoze still, most everything else works ok enough with proton in linux now. I also keep windoze in as minimal space as I can using linux ful…
Your saying some games run better under the windows emulation system than under windows itself?
Re: Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
#27Yeah 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.
I keep a W11 drive in my system (separate drive from my main linux system) for games and I find I haven't booted into it in months.
And I know when I do it'll take probably an hour to get all the updates out of its system. Ugh.
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> Why would it stop being a thing? Virtualization?
I just realised writing another response, that a large portion of the reasons I need to run Windows occasionally if to use weird hardware that's windows specific. Things that run odd USB protocols, our even worse require a USB-serial converter with a specific chipset. 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 environme…
I just realized that SSDs are sorta 3 1/2" floppy size. I picture turning off the machine, and popping one out of a caddy for another.
The circle is vlosed.
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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.
Just run windows in a VM if you need it for anything.
My computer is not very powerful. Running games or resource-demanding programs on a virtualized Windows would be a significantly worse experience than running them on a bare-metal OS.
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