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I already dual boot windows 11 and NixOS. I only use Windows for some games on Steam, everything else I do in nix land. (My work computer is a Mac but that coul
by weatherlight 3y ago
I already dual boot windows 11 and NixOS. I only use Windows for some games on Steam, everything else I do in nix land. (My work computer is a Mac but that could be switched easily as well.)
There isn't a world where I would pay a subscription for an OS, given the plethora of good and stable distros of linux (and OSX)
- DistractionRect 3y agoSimilar story here, I take it a step further and boot windows as a guest VM with hardware passthrough w/ evdev + ddcutil as a software kvm switch. The only time I boot it baremetal is for programs that are hostile to being run in a VM. It's a good learning exercise, and the community over at /r/vfio + their discord is pretty helpful. Some madlads take it a step further and create something similar to wslg, but with the host programs overlaid over the guest desktop, https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/yrqcq4/2in1_os_with_lookingglass/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/yrqcq4/2in1_os_with_l...
- karmakaze 3y agoI used to run Windows as a guest os with passthru access to a dedicated disk/drive and it did run great. I could even reboot natively into Windows using the same disk. I haven't done it again on my upgraded machines and instead use a dedicated Windows gaming machine. Proton should work fine for the games I play as it doesn't need any (incompatible) anti-cheat software--just haven't got around to it.