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Re:Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local ... by masklinn on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:54AM (#40786852)
Yeah I’m looking at building a new machine because mine is getting very long in the tooth (although I don’t play very demanding games anyway), I’ve been waffling about using linux and proton for it even though my gaming PC has been windows since forever, I think at this point it’s petty much a done deal.
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Re:Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local ... by Zhyl on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:19AM (#40787052)
You can also dual boot and/or swap out hard drives. It took me a goodly while to get immersed and comfortable with Linux, so I'd definitely plan a discovery and/or transition phase before hard switching over.
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Re:Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local ... by masklinn on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:58AM (#40788027)
My dayjob is on linux and my personal dev machine is a mac so I don’t foresee an unfathomable amount of issues, unless I get into driver hell.

Dual booting would rather defeat the point / message of leaving windows behind for Microsoft’s shenanigans.

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Re:Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local ... by totallywrong on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:26AM (#40787693)
There is GPU passthrough these days, where you can have a Windows VM with dedicated graphics and native performance running under Linux. No dual boot required. It does take a bit of work to get it right but I consider my current setup near perfect.
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