> Unfortunately a lot of games and programs like Photoshop still require Windows so I'm stuck with it... This was a growing annoyance I had with Windows: more

> Unfortunately a lot of games and programs like Photoshop still require Windows so I'm stuck with it... This was a growing annoyance I had with Windows: more and more of my computing could be done (and done pleasantly) in Linux, but as long as there existed just one application I couldn't replace and/or emulate, I'd be stuck with using Windows 100% of the time. So this past year I invested some time and money into setting up a Linux-first workstation where Windows lives in a virtual machine with gpu passthrough, usb passthrough, etc. Now I can run games, proprietary applications, VR, etc. without issue and at full speed in the Windows VM, but otherwise stay in the Linux world as much as possible. The results are fantastic now, but it did admittedly take a ton of time to get everything working. Search for 'VFIO' and read through https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ if you're interested in something similar.