WindowsLies/BlockWindows

Re:WindowsLies/BlockWindows by alkonaut on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:02AM (#10518620)

Dual boot works fine, as long as the windows machine is the host, and the linux machine is the guest, since only on the host will you get reasonable gaming performance.

EDIT: Yes meant to answer the "Why dual boot when you can use a VM". My post meant to say "VM is cool is Windows is the host". Sorry.

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Re:WindowsLies/BlockWindows by darklajid on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:21AM (#10518678)

Uhm? No. You seem to confuse dual boot with virtualization. Dual boot means 'Reboot, pick a different OS in the bootloader'. Both Linux AND Windows would run with full performance, but never at the same time. There is no concept of host or guest.

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Re:WindowsLies/BlockWindows by alkonaut on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:55AM (#10518808)

Hah sorry, I was answering the wrong post, I meant to answer the post that said "why dual boot when you can run a VM", and the answer should be "VM works fine as long as..."

Sorry about that.

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Re:WindowsLies/BlockWindows by slazaro on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:14AM (#10518653)

You're thinking of virtualization. Dual booting is when you have both OS installed on different partitions/drives and you restart to boot a different one.

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Re:WindowsLies/BlockWindows by radialbrain on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:13AM (#10518652)

I think he meant dual booting as in installing two operating systems side by side, and running one at a time on bar metal - not virtualizing anything.

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