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?
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?
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.
Why do you say that? I’ve run plenty of both and haven’t really had trouble with one or the other.
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.
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…