[night-rider]

The thing about Linux is that it’s hackable and you can customise it to your liking. I’ve been using it for about a decade and the only thing it can’t do is run iTunes so I have a virtual machine for Windows stuff. It’s worth having a separate Linux box where you can tinker with new software and customisations without those changes affecting your daily driver OS. I found that over time the more customisations you do the more the OS breaks down and starts to get buggy. Having a dedicated box for tinkering is essential and you can just do a fresh install when you’ve made many irreversible mistakes.

[jotm]

What I would love is easy GPU (and other hardware) passthrough to the (Windows) VM. You can already use "real" partitions on separate drives to maximize performance. Graphics is the only thing that's complicated.

Tbh, I only tried it on a laptop and it was hell, it ended up needing a mountain of configuration and software just to pass an nVidia GPU (fortunately a Quadro, which is slighly easier) to Windows, which has the software that needs it the most.

Is it easier on desktop computers with an IGP and a discrete card, or two graphics cards? Or do you still need to fuck around with the VBIOS, fight with power management and hybrid modes (I guess not?), use Looking Glass/RDP/dummy display/DP/HDMI plug and a ton of configuration that sometimes fails after updates?

Guess I will try it again on my next computer, which must be a powerful Ryzen build.