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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is it a good idea to run windows in VM with gpu passthrough (nvidia RTX) for certain games, instead of dual booting? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been dual booting Linux and windows for about two years now, but in those two years, I have never booted into windows, except by mistake.

This made me think about removing windows and just saving that wasted space for Linux. I only ever dual booted for the off chance the peer pressure to play anti cheat games was too great, but so far it hasn't.

For the off chance where I want to play a game that doesn't run well on Linux, is it a good idea to do that via VM instead of dual boot, or is it too much hassle? Will there be performance hit or any issues with those games?

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[–] mikehunt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been running a setup like this for years without issues. Only the initial setup was a bit cumbersome, specifically getting it to work with just one GPU. Ran two for sometime before I got it working without issues though

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's possible to do passthrough with a single GPU? I thought the whole point of passthrough was that the guest operating system took control of the hardware directly and that precluded sharing it with the host. Is single-GPU passthrough with an accelerated desktop on the host viable?

[–] mikehunt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it is, but ofc. the host screen goes blank when you start the VM. I run enerything on one virtualization host as VMs so this is not an issue. Basically I can run one machine that requires the gpu at a time, and of course all the headless ones like servers and the firewall keep running normally in the background.

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see, that makes sense. So basically serially passing the device around from one system to the next. Thanks for the response, it's been a long time since I looked at passthrough and this is news to me.