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I like SPAs when they're done right. Google Maps has some hiccups, but overall I like the way it works. Did you ever use MapQuest in the early '00s? Having t

I like SPAs when they're done right. Google Maps has some hiccups, but overall I like the way it works. Did you ever use MapQuest in the early '00s? Having to do a full page load to move your view was awful I've considered running Windows only as a shell for running a Linux VM (that I would actually do my daily driving in) and Windows-only games, but I don't know how well that would work. How good is GPU acceleration in a VM is you're not using PCI-E pass-through? I'd also worry about the RAM requirements to make that work well, as I'd effectively be splitting my RAM in half, though I was planning on going to 64 GB on my next upgrade anyways.

gigaflop 5y ago
Key phrase, "when they're done right" :) GMaps is good when I'm using it for navigation, but exploration is clearly not its intent, which is probably why I take so much issue with it. My utility company seems to use an SPA for their portal, and I've never had an issue with it, since everything I need it to do is readily accessible. I've yet to try setting up GPU or PCIe passthrough, but I imagine that they wouldn't take up too much overhead on their own. It isn't 1:1 comparable to your situation, but Linus Tech Tips has a few videos titled something like "X gamers on 1 machine", which shows it's doable. Having a guest OS in a VM would likely be the bigger performance bottleneck (with extra input lag), and I'm pretty sure that some anticheat software detects and discriminates against being run in a VM. I'd sooner try to get a game in a working state on the Linux OS with Proton or Wine, and drop down to installing on Windows if it fails or gets too fussy.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  > I'm pretty sure that some anticheat software detects and discriminates against being run in a VM I've always thought that the ability for a program to detect that it's in a VM is a failure of the hypervisor. My main goal was really to just avoid having to reboot my system and switch to Windows any time I wanted to play a game that only worked in Windows.

gigaflop 5y ago

Key phrase, "when they're done right" :) GMaps is good when I'm using it for navigation, but exploration is clearly not its intent, which is probably why I take so much issue with it. My utility company seems to use an SPA for their portal, and I've never had an issue with it, since everything I need it to do is readily accessible. I've yet to try setting up GPU or PCIe passthrough, but I imagine that they wouldn't take up too much overhead on their own. It isn't 1:1 comparable to your situation, but Linus Tech Tips has a few videos titled something like "X gamers on 1 machine", which shows it's doable. Having a guest OS in a VM would likely be the bigger performance bottleneck (with extra input lag), and I'm pretty sure that some anticheat software detects and discriminates against being run in a VM. I'd sooner try to get a game in a working state on the Linux OS with Proton or Wine, and drop down to installing on Windows if it fails or gets too fussy.

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
> I'm pretty sure that some anticheat software detects and discriminates against being run in a VM I've always thought that the ability for a program to detect that it's in a VM is a failure of the hypervisor. My main goal was really to just avoid having to reboot my system and switch to Windows any time I wanted to play a game that only worked in Windows.