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Re:How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption by checkyoursudo on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:40AM (#24917598)
One OS per SSD is what I do on my desktop. Though these days the only thing I have been using Windows for really is Matlab (anyone get matlab working in Wine or otherwise?), so I really probably could just run a VM now.

My progression has been:

-> 2000 dual-boot Gentoo/Windows (mostly because of gaming) -> 2012 (? I think, maybe 2014) Gentoo host with Qemu guest Windows GPU Passthrough (which was still sort of a dual boot since I could actually boot into that Windows SSD normally) -> whenever proton came out, Gentoo 99% of the time and rarely boot into Windows getting rid of GPU/SSD passthrough because it was cool but ultimately too much hassle -> now almost never boot into Windows (once every few months) except when working with one specific researcher who only uses Matlab, because Win is where my working Matlab install is ...

Inertia has kept the dual boot around because I don't want to set it all up again in a VM really.

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Re:How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption by jpm48 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:50AM (#24917668)
I use matlab under linux it works fine for my usage is there anything specific that doesn't work that means you need windows?
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Re:How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption by checkyoursudo on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#24918996)
I guess it's been years since I tried. It seems that Matlab does work fine in Linux now? Based on a quick search, that seems to be the case. I'll give it a go. Thanks for your comment.
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Re:How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption by fsflover on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:12AM (#24918908)
> (anyone get matlab working in Wine or otherwise?)

Perhaps you could try GNU Octave.

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Re:How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption by gmadsen on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:57AM (#24919472)
octave is not a 1-1 replacement. If you are sharing and contributing to a matlab project, you probably want to run it in matlab
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