Benefit of Ventoy/Vhd for Windows vs Dualbooting? or VM
Benefit of Ventoy/Vhd for Windows vs Dualbooting? or VM
What are the differences between the implementations? Does booting from a vhd using ventoy (external ssd not usb) let me avoid losing a partition to windows?
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Virtualizing your *nix setup is the way to go if you're too weak to let go of Windows permanently (lol).
Windows is destructive and every time there's a major update it will eat the bootloader and remove any *nix entries. Using virtualization removes that problem at the cost of performance.
I'd virtualize windows. For me, it's way more important to have a good host
Can't say I agree.
*nix virtualizes way better than Windows. You'll get better overall performance by virtualizing *nix and using Windows on bare metal.
I've usually seen the opposite: running Linux inside a VM on Windows is slower than running Windows in a VM on Linux.
This is NOT the way to get people to switch. (Lol)
Where did I say that I was trying to get anyone to switch?
Theres always a chance something I need doesnt support linux, imo its smart to have a backup, I just dont want to waste unnecessary space or want to deal with partitions for windows since they give me a lot of issues trying to shrink them. I saw vhds with usb method mentioned on lemmy a few times and it seemed like a way to avoid partitions since you can have a 1tb whd, with 10gb on it on a 100gb harddrive, so Im assuming you can avoid having to lose hella space to a windows install you might never use, instead only as much as it actually takes up.
imo its smart to have a backup
You can virtualize 90% of most Windows applications from within Linux using Bottles. It's not really as big of an issue as you make it out to be--unless there's something you need that can't be virtualized.
I can do it so why not, why not have peace of mind about that 10% storage is cheap and os is free
Not if you have a modern BIOS
I can't even venture to guess what this statement even means as there's no truth to it whatsoever...