• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t know if it’s possible, but have you considered trying to install Windows in a virtual machine and just use Linux as your primary system? I started out this way too, where I had a dual-boot Linux and Windows system, and eventually I realized that I was booting into Windows so little that I just installed Windows in a virtual machine for the, like, very few times I ever needed it. And then, eventually I found out I didn’t need it at all anymore, and just killed the VM, and I haven’t used Windows for years.

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      9 hours ago

      I’ve tried that in the past, but I don’t think it will currently work. I’ll look into it, though.

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      12 hours ago

      You can set up a VM that accesses the raw disk partition of windows, instead of an image, so you can either dualboot or boot normally, in order to have windows alongside Linux.

      Used to work this way about 10 years ago.

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        11 hours ago

        Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know you could have Windows and Linux on the same disk in separate partitions, and then boot Linux and have the virtual machine access the raw disk image of Windows.