@maya_s_trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone
2026-10-18 19:31 UTC
What are your PC specs outside of an Nvidia card?
Depending on your specs, it might make more sense to run it in a Virtual Machine than dual boot.
I started my process of going into Linux with dual-booting for several years while also running a small linux server on a raspberry pi 3B+
The reality is I hardly ever booted into Linux unless I needed to do something over there. Several times I ignored the Linux side long enough that it was fully broken from not reviving updates for so long. (Literally slept on the upgrade window until the next upgrade was already out and the old upgrade window was gone…ooof. after that I went with LTS just to ensure that didn’t happen again).
Part of the reason I never booted into it is because turning it off and then on again… is actually more time consuming and interruptive than you initially think. I would just forget it was there on a normal day without any specific projects to work on.
I never really took it properly seriously until I fully removed Windows and made my Linux my daily driver. If I still need Windows, I run that in a Virtual Machine. However the amount of times I need it is steadily decreasing.
So, based on personal experience, if you have the specs, I strongly suggest a VM otherwise you might find yourself not even bothering to boot into Linux half the time because everything you do daily is still on Windows. Just a thought nugget to consider. Plenty of people told me I should be running mine in a VM that whole time, too. I was skeptical. Looking back, they were right, and it took me longer to acclimate than it would have if I had been consistently using it.
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@Well1@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 20:59
Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X RTX 3070 Ti 32 GB RAM HDD 1 M.2 and soon will add another one Similar to what I responded to another user that suggested using makeresolvedeb, I’m not sure the VM could detect the extension card I use for color grading (DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K), which would be an instant turnoff. However I’ll try it before going Dualboot. The only issue I find is that I don’t know how to set the VM properly for it to detect the card and also make the VM being as fast as my pc, since every VM I mount is pretty slow and makes the VM only a useful tool to try distros but not to actually use them. Thank you!