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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?
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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?
Is dual booting still a thing? I haven’t seen anyone doing it in 20 years.
I have a stable/secure Linux and an experimental Linux on my trusty old T430, but I need a Windows instance for testing.
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.
As a former dual-booter, there's surprisingly few games that still require Windows. You might consider going full Linux.
It will catch up though. I'm a happy user of the steam deck
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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.
You're talking Native support. But go to settings in Steam and look for "Steam Play will automatically install compatibility tools that allow you to play games from your library that were built for other operating systems. Enable Steam Play for supported titles". Here's the list of how well they all work https://www.protondb.com/explore
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Your saying some games run better under the windows emulation system than under windows itself?
Yeah, this is a thing though I wouldn’t pretend to know why. I used to get double the frame rate running World of Warcraft with WINE than I did on actual Windows. Never did dig into why.
Dual-booters are a hardy folk. They'll persevere. I had the distinct pleasure recently of creating a Windows install USB without using Windows to create it. Damn near impossible.
Dual-booters are a hardy folk. They'll persevere. I had the distinct pleasure recently of creating a Windows install USB without using Windows to create it. Damn near impossible.
How did you do it? Having trouble with this right now
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ICY DOCK has you covered. it's kind of their thing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040Z924Q https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084H5ZKPT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HK4QG at only $1.72 per gram, it's the greatest bargain in the computer market today.
That's huge, even though I've used some ICY products in the past. I just meant, if the SSD was slid in and out, bare, by itself.. it would feel like a floppy experience.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZJNR91
(really they do one thing and it's this. They practically have a corner on the “aftermarket hotswap drive bay accessory” market, and they have more variations than anyone can imagine :V )
Honestly I would love to try the "hotswap M.2 bay" or "hotswap U.2 bay" things, but it really does drive home how uneven the NVMe future is. Consumers get maybe two NVMes on their motherboard, meanwhile you need 16 pcie lanes to drive a 4-bay hotswap thing. We live in a society where a 1-socket server might have 24 nvme bays attached to it and yet consumers can't even populate an addon bay for their gamer case. (bottom text)
really does drive home the lack of pcie lanes on consumer stuff (given how much pcie continues to be the defacto standard for high-speed expansion) and the death of the "workstation"/"HEDT" segment as being a relatively accessible thing. Nowadays there are client machines and servers, and precious little in-between. You almost might as well just buy an Epyc (ROMED8-2T looks really nice) or just buy a used server as a backend/fileserver/NAS.
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That's huge, even though I've used some ICY products in the past. I just meant, if the SSD was slid in and out, bare, by itself.. it would feel like a floppy experience.
ICY DOCK can accommodate even the most sophisticated and discerning tastes… ;) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZJNR91 (really they do one thing and it's this. They practically have a corner on the “aftermarket hotswap drive bay accessory” market, and they have more variations than anyone can imagine :V ) Honestly I would love to try the "hotswap M.2 bay" or "hotswap U.2 bay" things, but it really does drive home how un…