Better not be a simp to Microsoft

When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I'll gladly stop using Windows. It's not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.

Sadly I have to waste 512gb of ssd for windows because oculus rift cv1 drivers are not finished and haven't been worked on for a year I think...
- Didn't expect to find another CV1 usr in the wild.
  I wish there was a way to use bottles or whatever to use the damn thing until an affordable and usable replacement finally appears.

I'm so sorry Jesus, I just wanted to play some tarkov
- Believe it or not, straight to hell.

I know it's Linux memes but is better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all. We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.
- diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this

I'm building a dedicated windows VR gaming PC that can live in my shed so I don't have to dual boot windows to use my racing sim.
Yes Linux and proton have come a long way, and for the most part is more than good enough. But for certain things (like my HP Reverb G2, or proprietary sim racing hardware drivers) it's just easier to pirate windows

I've got it on a vm for work stuff and shit, but raw metal is only for unix based OS ;)

Windows to my linux partition:
(this is why I wont dual boot)
- It's been >6years I've dual booted windows alongside Linux. Granted, the windows partition isn't often used; but never has it erased my Linux out of existence
- I used to have 2 ssds with one for Windows, the other for Linux. When I needed more space for games I just gave up on Windows and haven't since looked back. (Also converted one of my friends to dual-booting Mint).
- Separate hard drives fixes this one.

I remember one time after checking out Ubuntu when I went back to Windows, my PC would ask if I wanted to boot into Windows or Windows.

I haven't used windows since 2023, or so, but what's the problem with using Windows alongside Linux? Sometimes you just need Windows, and Wine isn't always the answer. Although, I must admit, Linux gaming has reached the point where Windows is needed (probably?) only for games with anti-cheat.
- Linux is the Nancy Kerrigan to Window's Tonya Harding when they're partitions of the same drive is the real problem.
- hdr as well as anti-cheat though for me it's just that really as I don't play multiplayer so once hdr works on mint windows is getting nuked

I have Windows on separate drive, but I haven't used it in years (I mean, I launched it recently once to check if a hardware issue I was having was Linux specific — it wasn't). I'm planning to delete it to reclaim the space, but I think I have some files I want to get from there but I don't want to go through the entire file system to find them, so it's just sitting there lol

The drive isn't even hooked up I swear!
- lol Mine is hooked up. But don’t worry, I fucked up the boot loader options on install and can’t load it anyways

Run Windows in a VM
Any software that doesn't work work in a VM doesn't deserve to work at all

It’s technically there on a separate drive entirely, but I haven’t touched it in at least a year. Probably gonna have to when I need to brush up for my cert renewal though

Naw, separate machines. One for VR, opening my office Access files, the Adobe suite. And another one with Linux I use for most everything. Dual booting is sometimes problematic.

I wish I could delete that partition for good, but my computer grqphics professor forces me to write code for DirectX instead of Vulkan.