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You can dual boot Windows. I'm giving everyone here express permission. You can even mass grave up an LTSC copy of windows 10 for a couple of years, it's all cool.
Just be aware! Windows updates do fuck around with the hard drive partitions and MBR, so your copy of Linux might get bricked or partially overwritten once in awhile.
I was not aware of this... Thanks for the heads up. The only device I have dual booting right now is just my Lenovo Legion Go, handheld gaming. Split windows and Bazzite (fedora based)
Guess it's time to wipe the windows. I haven't even used it that much
Good. I'm safe. I single-boot Linux for decades.
As if windows would let grub live
"Whoops I stomped on the MBR again, what are you gonna do 'bout it?"
Change to Linux boot loader grub and two disks... Your old piece of shit disk for windows. The good stuff for Linux. Never look back.... Unless your aunty needs help getting another virus or whatever windows offers.
I refuse. I flat out will not. Is there a couple games I'm missing sorely? Yes. Has the devil been whispering, "Come on... just a hundred gigs for that one game... you'll only have to boot it when you play..." Also yes. But I refuse.
Not today, satan.
I bought a second drive and am booting up PopOS from there. Am I safe from Jesus?
I've been thinking about keeping a running windows on the side once I switch my "gaming" system. There's two things that won't work well (or at all) on Linux: fully PC-tethered wireless SteamVR with my current hardware (HTC Cosmos Elite), and a ripping software.
I might keep a small windows running for VR (although I'm currently looking into trashing the hardware if a good alternative shows up). For the ripping software, I'll just stitch a script that uses existing open source software to do roughly the same thing.
And I might just get a small box, like a 200something computer with only Steam and the wireless card, to remote play VR through it, if that's an option.
Bye bye windows.
How about Windows AND MacOS? Asking for a friend.
Sorry but using less Windows via dual boot setup > Not using Linux at all.
Whatever works for people is the right choice.
sure but this is linux memes , so nuance and rational thought mean dick all mehbreveh
I just wanna use my hdr monitor bro
Hell yeah, another HDR lover on Lemmy! Now there's two of us!
That's the main reason why I use Win11 as my primary OS. 10's HDR support is half-assed, and KDE's is even worse. Linux doesn't even support nVidia GPUs properly, so SDR-to-HDR conversion is missing for both YouTube and local videos. And since Win10 doesn't have AutoHDR for games, that leaves 11 as my only choice if I want to play games and watch videos in HDR with minimal hassle.
(edit: And yes I know that converting to HDR isn't as good as real HDR; but IDC cause it looks amazing to me, especially in the highlights.)
It only ever exists as a VM, and I boot it up rarely as it deserves this purgatory.
I know it's Linux memes but its better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all. We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.
Edit: typo
diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this
Are you referring to Suckless.org and their Nazi controversy (which was successfully removed from Wikipedia)
I remember one time after checking out Ubuntu when I went back to Windows, my PC would ask if I wanted to boot into Windows or Windows.
Β―\_(γ)_/Β― been daily driving Linux for at least a decade now...
But I haven't found a way to run my HTC Vive on my nvidia gpu and the updater software for my car on Linux... So I still have a dual boot for those
updater software for my car
Can I just point out that there was a point in time in living memory where this statement would be utterly deranged? (And it'll probably soon be unusual again because of OTA updates...)
Oh, it still is.
When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I'll gladly stop using Windows. It's not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.
Sometimes I just wanna play games at home, not fight for several hours just to get NVVM compilation failed :( It's really cool that so much is working for people on Linux these days, but it doesn't seem to be working for people like me stuck with a Nvidia card
There are applications that still don't have a proper Linux port, or any at all. Or maybe the ones that exist are cumbersome to use. I really hate that people downvote you for pointing this out. If you were wrong, Linux would have a much larger share already.
I understand that some people have alternatives for everything they use; I'm happy for them, and I wish to be them. But assuming that if I can do everything I want on Linux in the same quality/convenience/whatever, then others must, as well...
The drive isn't even hooked up I swear!
I haven't used windows since 2023, or so, but what's the problem with using Windows alongside Linux? Sometimes you just need Windows, and Wine isn't always the answer. Although, I must admit, Linux gaming has reached the point where Windows is needed (probably?) only for games with anti-cheat.
its been years since I touched my 200gb windows partition, but it might have something important i might need in future lmao
Oblivion Remaster got me relapsing because I still had leftover game pass subscription. Forgive me my lord. And holy shit Todd managed to stitch Unreal Engine on top of Creation Engine, it's black magic fuckery. Lots of esp only mods still work like wtf.
That's crazy, I would not have even thought to try mods with the remaster.
I copied those files into my home folder years ago and wiped the partition for good.
I'm so sorry Jesus, I just wanted to play some tarkov
Believe it or not, straight to hell.
I have Windows on separate drive, but I haven't used it in years (I mean, I launched it recently once to check if a hardware issue I was having was Linux specific β it wasn't). I'm planning to delete it to reclaim the space, but I think I have some files I want to get from there but I don't want to go through the entire file system to find them, so it's just sitting there lol
