That's why part of this is the mentality of treating the Windows partition as a game console - it's a seperate system from your main Linux workspace (generally

That's why part of this is the mentality of treating the Windows partition as a game console - it's a seperate system from your main Linux workspace (generally when you play on your game console you're at your TV and not working at your computer as well). If you really want to do both at once then dual-booting is not the solution for you.