I’ve been dual booting Linux and windows for about two years now, but in those two years, I have never booted into windows, except by mistake.

This made me think about removing windows and just saving that wasted space for Linux. I only ever dual booted for the off chance the peer pressure to play anti cheat games was too great, but so far it hasn’t.

For the off chance where I want to play a game that doesn’t run well on Linux, is it a good idea to do that via VM instead of dual boot, or is it too much hassle? Will there be performance hit or any issues with those games?

  • cablepick@lemmy.cablepick.net
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    2 years ago

    Its been a while since I’ve had any gpu’s attached to a windows VM but I think my time pre dates the change. I realized they were not actually doing anything for my given workloads so I sold most of them. The P40 is setup in a VM for tensorflow now and one of these days Ill get the time to go back to that.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Nvidia intentionally broke consumer GPUs for so long that I’m pretty sure most people who know GPU passthrough exists still think you need to do the weird Nvidia workarounds!

      • pvq@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I have recently been playing with VMs in Unraid and in the video tutorials I’ve seen they talk about about grouping together (by editing xml file) the video with audio that comes the GPU to avoid that error[1]. Also about passing a modified BIOS. Are those the workarounds been talked about here?

        [1] multifunction=‘on’