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I’m reading this post with curiosity and interest. I’ve been toying with my Windows machine to have dual boot win10/win11. It’s easy to do, unless you want comp

I’m reading this post with curiosity and interest. I’ve been toying with my Windows machine to have dual boot win10/win11. It’s easy to do, unless you want complete installation on separate disks. I’ve been also researching disk images as a means to restore working windows installation with minimal downtime. So it’s with curiosity that I read this, but I don’t understand what you’re referring to about configuration. Do you mean setting for networking, peripherals and reg edits to get rid of those darn folders for ‘games’ and ‘videos’? As much as I try to make my own improvements and insurance against downtime, I find I’m spending a lot of time to only discover its best to let Windows do its thing.

meatjuice 3y ago
> I don’t understand what you’re referring to about configuration. Do you mean setting for networking, peripherals and reg edits to get rid of those darn folders for ‘games’ and ‘videos’? Basically everything, including ones that you mentioned. Networking, for example, have these options (link below) https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=networking https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=5... peripherals are typically managed by “home-manager” Registry in this context is specific to Windows so I don’t know. Environment variables are configurable. Dual-booting requires partitioning so I personally don’t really like it.
- xtiansimon 3y ago
  “Dual-booting requires partitioning…” Not necessarily. As I hinted in the OP, I'm installed on separate drives. My Lenovo tiny has 2x M.2 SSD and 1x 2.5” SSD all in a 7”x7”x1.5” format. And I don’t think you can avoid partitioning. Windows makes 4 partitions automatically—unless you’re making multiple installations, then it doesn’t duplicate boot (logically problematic) and WinRE

meatjuice 3y ago

> I don’t understand what you’re referring to about configuration. Do you mean setting for networking, peripherals and reg edits to get rid of those darn folders for ‘games’ and ‘videos’? Basically everything, including ones that you mentioned. Networking, for example, have these options (link below) https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=networking https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=5... peripherals are typically managed by “home-manager” Registry in this context is specific to Windows so I don’t know. Environment variables are configurable. Dual-booting requires partitioning so I personally don’t really like it.

xtiansimon 3y ago
“Dual-booting requires partitioning…” Not necessarily. As I hinted in the OP, I'm installed on separate drives. My Lenovo tiny has 2x M.2 SSD and 1x 2.5” SSD all in a 7”x7”x1.5” format. And I don’t think you can avoid partitioning. Windows makes 4 partitions automatically—unless you’re making multiple installations, then it doesn’t duplicate boot (logically problematic) and WinRE