1)install Linux on one drive.
2)install Windows on a second drive.
3)boot from grub on the first drive and add an entry to boot Windows.
4)on a 3rd drive format it ext3 or optionally dos. Mount this puppy at /home or even /home/user.
5)don’t let windows touch you Linux home drive ever. Fuck windows and Microsoft. Both can suck my entire ass. If you ever need to share files between these systems use a pen drive. Microsoft doesn’t deserve you. Just use it as a last resort, do your thing and GTFO ASAP.
Just a heads up to anyone reading this: Don’t format your home folder as FAT32/ntfs. Some stuff in there needs Linux specific permission bits and you might be limited in terms of maximum file size.
Consider mounting at /home/usename/shared or something instead if you want a shared drive.
Step 4 is in my opinion the most clever and important part… Basically if you remove your home drive and boot, you get a vanilla computer. If you put it back, you get your computer back…ie, if you fuck up your Linux or windows install you just remove your home, reinstall blind and put your home back in…like you never left!!! Plus if your drive for the os dies, you can just make another! Or you can even take your home folder with you from one Linux box to a new one in the blink of an eye…a very slow blink… Hold on, I’m still pulling the drive…open slowly… Done! See? Easy!
I used to run Windows on an esata drive that I would only power up occasionally in order to game, and it still somehow – and I don’t remember how – managed to ruin my computer.
What’s wrong with a VM? I set up a Win10 instance in VMM right after I switched to Linux full time 10 months ago, but I had to use it exactly once to configure the RGB on my keyboard, and haven’t had a reason to boot it up since.
From what I understood, it runs on ‘Bare Metal’ which means that it theoretically should preform just as well as if you booted into it, with the only overhead being the *nix which is minimal.
I’m not saying it’s better, I’m honestly asking because I have very little experience with it.
I used to dual boot back in the day, but that was when I was still on HDDs and the long ass boot times meant I usually just stayed in Windows if I was planning on gaming that day.
That’s not how that works. I think your confusing bare metal with bare metal hypervisor. The latter is meant to mean a Type-1 Hypervisor, which KVM isn’t anyway but that’s another story.
Without GPU pass through you aren’t going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming. I’ve also had issues with KVM and libvirt breaking during sleep. It’s a lot more janky than you make out.
Well it does seem to be a somewhat confusing subject, so forgive me for getting it wrong. I must have misunderstood or misremembered the information I read when setting up the VM 10 months ago. As I said, I have very little experience with them and was honestly just asking if it’s not almost as good. I wasn’t trying to ‘make it out’ to be ‘not janky’.
According to Wiki, KVM " is a … virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor."
I wasn’t aware that there was a distinction between a Hypervisor and a ‘Type-1’ Hypervisor, but now I know so thank you for clearing that up for me.
Without GPU pass through you aren’t going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming.
According to this wiki, it seems like GPU passthrough is possible with KVM if your system supports IOMMU, mine does. But it looks like you also need a separate GPU to do that, so that answers my question about is it nearly as good as dual booting.
Every game I have attempted to run has just worked and they seem to run just as good as they did in Windows, so I guess I’m lucky I don’t need to really worry about dual booting or VM’s. I was just kind of wondering if it would work if I did need it, since that seemed like it would be a lot simpler than booting into a different operating system.
Best setup ever:
1)install Linux on one drive.
2)install Windows on a second drive.
3)boot from grub on the first drive and add an entry to boot Windows.
4)on a 3rd drive format it ext3 or optionally dos. Mount this puppy at /home or even /home/user.
5)don’t let windows touch you Linux home drive ever. Fuck windows and Microsoft. Both can suck my entire ass. If you ever need to share files between these systems use a pen drive. Microsoft doesn’t deserve you. Just use it as a last resort, do your thing and GTFO ASAP.
I’ve got this setup, but optimized slightly:
LOL exactly!
Just a heads up to anyone reading this: Don’t format your home folder as FAT32/ntfs. Some stuff in there needs Linux specific permission bits and you might be limited in terms of maximum file size.
Consider mounting at
/home/usename/sharedor something instead if you want a shared drive.That space at the end of 1) is doing some heavy lifting.
Time to install to OneDrive.
Does this work to prevent Windows from fucking your bootloader in all cases? Also I dont quite get the importance of step 4?
Step 4 is in my opinion the most clever and important part… Basically if you remove your home drive and boot, you get a vanilla computer. If you put it back, you get your computer back…ie, if you fuck up your Linux or windows install you just remove your home, reinstall blind and put your home back in…like you never left!!! Plus if your drive for the os dies, you can just make another! Or you can even take your home folder with you from one Linux box to a new one in the blink of an eye…a very slow blink… Hold on, I’m still pulling the drive…open slowly… Done! See? Easy!
I used to run Windows on an esata drive that I would only power up occasionally in order to game, and it still somehow – and I don’t remember how – managed to ruin my computer.
Yeah, isolated home drive is the way to go. You just nuke Linux and windows and restart but your stuff is safe.
What’s wrong with a VM? I set up a Win10 instance in VMM right after I switched to Linux full time 10 months ago, but I had to use it exactly once to configure the RGB on my keyboard, and haven’t had a reason to boot it up since.
From what I understood, it runs on ‘Bare Metal’ which means that it theoretically should preform just as well as if you booted into it, with the only overhead being the *nix which is minimal.
I’m not saying it’s better, I’m honestly asking because I have very little experience with it.
I used to dual boot back in the day, but that was when I was still on HDDs and the long ass boot times meant I usually just stayed in Windows if I was planning on gaming that day.
That’s not how that works. I think your confusing bare metal with bare metal hypervisor. The latter is meant to mean a Type-1 Hypervisor, which KVM isn’t anyway but that’s another story.
Without GPU pass through you aren’t going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming. I’ve also had issues with KVM and libvirt breaking during sleep. It’s a lot more janky than you make out.
Well it does seem to be a somewhat confusing subject, so forgive me for getting it wrong. I must have misunderstood or misremembered the information I read when setting up the VM 10 months ago. As I said, I have very little experience with them and was honestly just asking if it’s not almost as good. I wasn’t trying to ‘make it out’ to be ‘not janky’.
According to Wiki, KVM " is a … virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor."
I wasn’t aware that there was a distinction between a Hypervisor and a ‘Type-1’ Hypervisor, but now I know so thank you for clearing that up for me.
According to this wiki, it seems like GPU passthrough is possible with KVM if your system supports IOMMU, mine does. But it looks like you also need a separate GPU to do that, so that answers my question about is it nearly as good as dual booting.
Every game I have attempted to run has just worked and they seem to run just as good as they did in Windows, so I guess I’m lucky I don’t need to really worry about dual booting or VM’s. I was just kind of wondering if it would work if I did need it, since that seemed like it would be a lot simpler than booting into a different operating system.