I changed my main machine over to Linux in the beginning of April, setting it up on its own NVMe so I could keep my other drive with Windows 10 intact and dual boot when needed.
I’ve been having a blast - ricing hyprland, better workflows, great gaming experiences.
Then yesterday I realized that I hadn’t actually bothered to dual boot once since testing out the Windows entry in my systemd-boot menu when I first set it up.
Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?
I wiped out the Windows drive with no remorse. Damn, that felt good.
Goodbye Windows, you won’t be missed.
That was my experience as well. 2 hard drives, so I thought, why not dual boot? Surely, I’d need windows for some reason or another.
6 months later, I realized the same thing - I have a 1 TB drive doing nothing. I nuked it and never looked back.
Sometimes I run into some bullshit reason so I keep an old 120 GB SSD with Windows 10 in it so when I need I can plug it into my laptop.
The latest reason was, Xiaomi’s bullshit bootloader unlocker that only works on Windows.
Do you need windows running on bare metal? I’m quite happy with a VM for all my windows usage. For example the mouse I use has a config tool that only works on windows
Most of the time a VM suffice. But when it comes to authenticating programs like that bootloader unlocker, I usually run into problems. Instead of trying to fix its problems, I find this solution easier. It’s a 120 GB SSD I wouldn’t possibly use otherwise anyway, so no hurt.
Fair point
I just use a windows laptop for those occasions.
What mouse is that?
Do you need windows running on bare metal? I’m quite happy with a VM for all my windows usage
I initially set up my dual boot with 1 TB to Windows, 3 TB to CachyOS, since I planned to commit to it but wanted the space on the windows side just in case. I’ve shrunken it down to 250GB and that’s where it’s staying.
I’m this close to just wiping out the dual boot entirely, but it is convenient to have around once every few months for some odd reason or another
I switched my last windows device to cachy os, and chose the plasma desktop. Not only does it look pretty, but all my games work great! Windows is no longer needed, suffice it to say.
That feeling when you realize windows hasn’t booted fo half a year and has kinda just there for no reason with like 20 updates in queue.
I did almost the exact same thing, on the same timeline! Installed Bazzite on a second NVMe sometime in the spring, and it’s been my daily driver for months now. For the first couple months I was swapping back and forth due to some graphics driver instability, but that’s because I got a 9070XT at launch and it took a bit for the Linux drivers to get to where they needed to be. That’s pretty much sorted now though, and I can’t remember the last time I booted into Windows.
Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?
I might use mine to try other distros. Bazzite has been great so far, but I’m not sure I’m sold on immutability and I might try a non-Fedora based distro.
I just gave my Linux partition 60Gb and I still have 53% free space.
Some of my games are bigger than 60gb 😂
I have 2 ssds. 1st ssd has 512MB partition for both Windows and Linux bootloaders and rest of the storage for data, games etc. 2nd ssd has both Windows ans Linux OS on different partitions and some more partitions for data.
I’m unfortunately chained to my Windows install - a handful of Windows-only games I play with friends, and solidworks (I use a VM for it here and there but it’s usually easier to just use Windows). When I first jumped to Linux, though, I accidentally broke my Windows install, so I was forced to get used to it for the first month or so.
Have you checked out winapps? https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/
I think it came up during my initial search a year or so ago. For whatever reason I decided it wasn’t the way to go. I know solidworks supposedly has lots of issues running through programs like wine and proton. The games I play are only Windows-only due to things like anti-cheat bullshit.