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dual ssd, dual boot. my windows never gets updated because any update could break gaming. my linux gets updated daily, when something breaks it’s easy to roll

dual ssd, dual boot. my windows never gets updated because any update could break gaming. my linux gets updated daily, when something breaks it’s easy to rollback and pin.

Woeps 3y ago
This is the way!, Tough I personally stopped dual booting with Windows due to their updates policy. Sometimes I would not boot into it for months and then unskippable (or I forgot to skips them) updates would ruin that one hour of gaming I might have available...
- nathants 3y ago
  atlas-os or hellzerg/optimizer can make windows semi-usable for gaming. they never update again.
yomlica8 3y ago
I have a Windows VM on my main machine that I pass a GPU to for playing games. The idea was I'd just snapshot the disk so if windows hosed me I could roll back. In practice I just play games in linux through proton or native though. The Windows install always needs updates so it is a chore when I actually want to use it. As an aside, I cannot believe how it is impossible to script the base windows install to do updates through the command line on a strict schedule! I ended up having to install some 3rd party powershell package and I still have some annoying limitations around feature updates with it. This should be built in!
- BluePen8 3y ago
  Do you just use virtual box for something like this? I split my time between two places, and game infrequently which means my SFF gaming PC is often still in the box until I need it, at which point Windows updates can waste the time I had for gaming. Would love a way to use my laptop to keep some Windows VM snapshot up to date. Windows has ruined more gaming sessions than it’s provided for me lately.
  - yomlica8 3y ago
    I use QEMU/KVM/Libvirt. Virtualbox had experimental passthrough support for awhile but I believe they removed it.
    - fsflover 3y ago
      Alternatively, you could use Qubes OS for that: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows, https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#can-i-run-applications-like-games-which-require-hardware-acceleration https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#can-i-run-applications-like-ga...

dual ssd, dual boot. my windows never gets updated because any update could break gaming. my linux gets updated daily, when something breaks it’s easy to rollback and pin.

Woeps 3y ago

This is the way!, Tough I personally stopped dual booting with Windows due to their updates policy. Sometimes I would not boot into it for months and then unskippable (or I forgot to skips them) updates would ruin that one hour of gaming I might have available...

nathants 3y ago
atlas-os or hellzerg/optimizer can make windows semi-usable for gaming. they never update again.

yomlica8 3y ago

I have a Windows VM on my main machine that I pass a GPU to for playing games. The idea was I'd just snapshot the disk so if windows hosed me I could roll back. In practice I just play games in linux through proton or native though. The Windows install always needs updates so it is a chore when I actually want to use it. As an aside, I cannot believe how it is impossible to script the base windows install to do updates through the command line on a strict schedule! I ended up having to install some 3rd party powershell package and I still have some annoying limitations around feature updates with it. This should be built in!

BluePen8 3y ago
Do you just use virtual box for something like this? I split my time between two places, and game infrequently which means my SFF gaming PC is often still in the box until I need it, at which point Windows updates can waste the time I had for gaming. Would love a way to use my laptop to keep some Windows VM snapshot up to date. Windows has ruined more gaming sessions than it’s provided for me lately.
- yomlica8 3y ago
  I use QEMU/KVM/Libvirt. Virtualbox had experimental passthrough support for awhile but I believe they removed it.
  - fsflover 3y ago
    Alternatively, you could use Qubes OS for that: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows, https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#can-i-run-applications-like-games-which-require-hardware-acceleration https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#can-i-run-applications-like-ga...