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Why would it stop being a thing? I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames,
by epidemian 2y ago
Why would it stop being a thing?
I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had needed Windows for a specific videogame or program, i would still be dual-booting today.
- mustache_kimono 2y ago> Why would it stop being a thing? Virtualization?
- bigiain 2y agoI just realised writing another response, that a large portion of the reasons I need to run Windows occasionally if to use weird hardware that's windows specific. Things that run odd USB protocols, our even worse require a USB-serial converter with a specific chipset. For me, it's way easier to keep a "hardware Windows machine" available than to debug why these things don't quite work right in a virtualised environment every time I need to use em.
- b112 2y agoI just realized that SSDs are sorta 3 1/2" floppy size. I picture turning off the machine, and popping one out of a caddy for another. The circle is vlosed.
- paulmd 2y agoICY DOCK has you covered. it's kind of their thing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040Z924Q https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040Z924Q https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084H5ZKPT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084H5ZKPT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HK4QG https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HK4QG at only $1.72 per gram, it's the greatest bargain in the computer market today.
- b112 2y agoThat's huge, even though I've used some ICY products in the past. I just meant, if the SSD was slid in and out, bare, by itself.. it would feel like a floppy experience.
- paulmd 2y agoICY DOCK can accommodate even the most sophisticated and discerning tastes… ;) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZJNR91 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZJNR91 (really they do one thing and it's this. They practically have a corner on the “aftermarket hotswap drive bay accessory” market, and they have more variations than anyone can imagine :V ) Honestly I would love to try the "hotswap M.2 bay" or "hotswap U.2 bay" things, but it really does drive home how uneven the NVMe future is. Consumers get maybe two NVMes on their motherboard, meanwhile you need 16 pcie lanes to drive a 4-bay hotswap thing. We live in a society where a 1-socket server might have 24 nvme bays attached to it and yet consumers can't even populate an addon bay for their gamer case. (bottom text) really does drive home the lack of pcie lanes on consumer stuff (given how much pcie continues to be the defacto standard for high-speed expansion) and the death of the "workstation"/"HEDT" segment as being a relatively accessible thing. Nowadays there are client machines and servers, and precious little in-between. You almost might as well just buy an Epyc (ROMED8-2T looks really nice) or just buy a used server as a backend/fileserver/NAS.
- b112 2y agoThat's awesome. Thanks!
- rnd0 2y agoThat's what killed dual booting for me circa 07/08.
- cwbriscoe 2y agoJust run windows in a VM if you need it for anything.
- epidemian 2y agoMy computer is not very powerful. Running games or resource-demanding programs on a virtualized Windows would be a significantly worse experience than running them on a bare-metal OS.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoWell... your comment has both the question and an answer: It's quite possible that fewer people bother dual-booting because it's less needed; as WINE/proton gets better and more programs have native Linux support, the need to have a Windows install on hand diminishes.