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by ActorNightly 701 days ago
I used to do this.

First I used to dual boot.

Then I used to have VFIO with passthrough. It worked ok, but it was a pain to setup, I would not recommend it unless you really want to mess around with it. You have to have 2 sets of hardware, multiple graphics cards, e.t.c.

Then, I gave WSL2 a try. Its actually pretty good. It runs all things linux, and you can even run graphical applications under windows since it includes an X server.

My current setup is Win 11 Pro for everything, with WSL2 for all dev. The pro version is worth it so I can disable all the annoying shit with WSL2 (Cortana, One Drive, e.t.c). It works super well. VSCode remote extension natively integrates with it, so I basically just open VSCode and its a linux system.