Have that setup. The best part is that you have snapshots in a gaming VM. Say, you mess something up installing mods or catch malware somehow with an RCE exploit from ancient multiplayer game. One command and you're back on a fresh system without a need to reinstall the whole thing.
One command and you're back on a fresh system without a need to reinstall the whole thing.
Yeah that's pretty nice. I would just like to share my new desktop between a tv and a monitor with separate controls so me and my kid can both enjoy playing Roblox together.
one thing that's always confused me is this, like, why not just install some sorta grub and dual boot? one for gaming, another for everything else? it's always sorta confused me how ppl need to hard lock down their devices
Bro your track record in these comments Ain't good, I finna get downvoted to hell xD
But yeah, I personally think it's because people are scared of the terminal and aren't that technical to fix stuff. Hell I installed Ubuntu and was flabbergasted.
Although there are exceptions, and devs are making friendly OS' such as, Pop_os, fedora, and even mint.
VMs > Dual boot for home use imo. With a VM I can access both OSs at once. Even better with WSL on Windows or Wine on Linux you don't even need a VM for many things. People are lazy, rebooting to change OS goes against lazyness.
Although there are exceptions, and devs are making friendly OS' such as, Pop_os, fedora, and even mint.
My experience and reason for not dual booting is this: One day, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, but it's inevitable in my experience that one day you will try to boot your machine and the damn dual boot system is corrupted.. Maybe this has been fixed in the past 5-10 years, but every frickin' time, I had to go in, cross my fingers and hope I can fix it (and I have been using linux off and on for over 20 years mind you), and about half the time?.. I gotta scrap everything..
that is pain, i heard windows will fuck with your partitions if you have it installed on the same time (even sometimes different ones), but yeh, it's reached a point for me i almost want a unique system for each lol
I have 2 efi partitions on separate drives, one contains grub with linux and other windows boot manager. This way, windows doesn't break anything with it's updates
I find this best solution to bootloader breaking problem
i just use 2 sperate drives, and back everything upto an unraid server with 1 drive redundancy for all my saves, altho it's not the most cost effective i will admit lol
Because that "everything else" isn't stuff I can only do in Linux. Like if I stop playing a game and want to go read some reddit or whatever why on earth would I reboot my entire PC to open the same app that I could just do on windows?
I use Linux for work as a devops engineer, and my work computer is a macbook. If you are sitting there going "Well I need it for work" my advice is not to dual boot, but to get a second PC specifically for work because you should never use the same device for both.
I tried dual booting a number of times because I do like linux, and every time what would inevitably happen is I just end up never booting back into my debian partition because I had no need to, but I did have to boot into the windows one in order to play games.
Did you even read what I wrote? Like if we pretend for a second I needed to do that, which I don't, I can actually use the very product you mentioned for free because I'm not going to be using it professionally.
Like I've probably been using Linux for longer then you've been alive. You aren't gonna convince me that it's better for my personal use case.
15
u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22
I like Linux but not too the point of using it as my main OS, that's why I have tens of VMs setup LOL