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    submitted 10 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 54 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    You guys have windows partitions?

    [–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I keep dual windows on laptop for rare occasions cuz I don't like dealing with passthrough for special USB cables that require their own drivers on VMs

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

    Yep, pretty much the same reason, just have to use it, mostly because of software that interacts with hardware, in one way or another.

    [–] Batbro@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    USB cables require drivers? 👀

    [–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    Well USB to serial port to some weird custom 6 pin connector for a certain machine.

    Or car data link adapter

    [–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

    The ports do, it’s just that they’re built in every kernel nowadays.

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

    I do. I wanted to finish something there that I couldn't easily move to Linux. A DVD project using files scattered accross the system in DVDStyler. I didn't notice DVDStyler works on Linux.
    Now I am basically keeping it due to sunk cost fallancy. It has lots of menus and videos, plus some of them I cut myself. But I don't even remember where I ended. There was also something about color limitation in menus I wanted to fix. I last shut it down during an update about 2-3 years ago.
    But who knows, maybe later at some point...

    But I could really use those extra 400GB. I only have 15GiB free right now...

    [–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not on bare metal, for this reason

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

    Always use a condom to interface your bare metal and windows.

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Need for interacting with hardware, so yeah, have it on bare metal, plus in a VM.

    [–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Any reason you can't just pass the hardware through to the vm?

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

    Because it needs SATA emulation, and that's still not a thing in KVMs as far as I know.

    [–] exoplanetary@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

    I installed one when I made my first Linux PC last month in case I needed to use Windows for anything that wouldn’t work fine enough on Linux.

    One month later and I still haven’t used it for anything. I think I may have underestimated how fleshed out the Linux ecosystem is these days.

    [–] Jack3G@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

    I've been delaying moving my root arch patition from my HDD to overwrite my old windows install on my SSD for months.

    I feel like the potential problems that that could cause aren't worth the better loading times from the SSD.