I’ve been dual booting Linux and windows for about two years now, but in those two years, I have never booted into windows, except by mistake.

This made me think about removing windows and just saving that wasted space for Linux. I only ever dual booted for the off chance the peer pressure to play anti cheat games was too great, but so far it hasn’t.

For the off chance where I want to play a game that doesn’t run well on Linux, is it a good idea to do that via VM instead of dual boot, or is it too much hassle? Will there be performance hit or any issues with those games?

  • MatejEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I am running Windows 11 (and before Windows 10) for years, using Steam, GOG, Epic, Origin. Have over 300 games, probably played 100 of them over the years. Never been blocked by any Anti Cheat software - in fact I would love to hear who has been banned and look into the details. Also I am unsure why people say that there Windows VMs inefficient, I would love to see some statistics about that.

    I use GTX1080 passthrough-ed with Qemu/KVM and AC Valhalla works with over 60FPS on Ultra.

    Proper setup requires some time of tinkering… Make sure you setup hugepages, proper CPU pinning, you need to play around with kernel boot params, direct passtrhrough of NVMe helps… Googling helps a lot…