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Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks by Relys on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:26AM (#12098929)
Even if you play AAA games you can migrate!

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3lno0t/gpu_pa...

I successfully followed this tutorial using Arch Linux as my primary OS and emulating Windows in QEMU with PCI passthrough to the graphics card. Unfortunately, I had too much lag in my Oculus Rift since I didn't have a dedicated USB PCI card to pass-through, but the performance overhead for AAA games was minimal and I was able to max out Fallout 4 with no noticeable performance decrease.

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Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks by em3rgent0rdr on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:57AM (#12099332)
Thanks! I've definately done the GPU PCI passthrough to play AAA games on linux, before steam for linux came out.

Honestly, I can't think of a time where I my linux machine couldn't do something essential that my windows machine could. But vice versa is another story. Try to run a server on regular windows desktop and it will want to reboot every week for updates. I'm wondering why I got downvotes...maybe simply because I sounded combative or fanboyish...

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