Warning to the users of micro$oft product

[shubla]

It will break your linux installation. So better not to use it at all!

[Granger]

You're ca. 10 years late with this.

[shubla]

It didnt break it before, but today I decided to play some games on windows side, because I thought it could do that, apparently it couldnt do that, instead, it installed some update and now everything is broken.

[romovs]

Did it overwrite GRUB or something?
At least it didn't brick your pc, be happy

[shubla]

After hours of troubleshooting I found out that it indeed not only overwrited my GRUB/efi partition, but also messed up MFT's of some of my NTFS hard-drives causing problems while auto-mounting them on startup. Luckily the both issues were quickly resolved and everything (seems) to work now.

I still dont recommend any microsoft products to anyone!
Be careful! When they get grasp of you, its difficult to get rid of their systems.
(still have to use ntfs on some drives because I used to use windows)

[Granger]

(still have to use ntfs on some drives because I used to use windows)

Put the windows into a VM, put the data behind a samba share.

[romovs]

Can't play games under VM (unless rich enough for two graphic cards).

[Granger]

You should be able to hand the only GPU card into the Windows VM, trick for doing it with only one card is to have a second VM (where you hand the GPU in also) that contains your linux desktop - only one can run at a time though and you need another machine for the initial setup (so you can shell into the then headless bare-metal system containing the host), the boot into the Windows VM can be scripted (terminate the linux VM, spin up windows VM, wait for it to 'poweroff' and then restart the linux one) to be initiated from the linux vm.

[romovs]

You should be able to hand the only GPU card into the Windows VM, trick for doing it with only one card is to have a second VM (where you hand the GPU in also) that contains your linux desktop - only one can run at a time though and you need another machine for the initial setup (so you can shell into the then headless bare-metal system containing the host), the boot into the Windows VM can be scripted (terminate the linux VM, spin up windows VM, wait for it to 'poweroff' and then restart the linux one) to be initiated from the linux vm.

Like running everything under a hypervisor? Sure that's an option, but as you said only one can run at a time. It's just easier to have a separate Windows disk for games.
Would love to be able to run games in VirtualBox, but alas need to keep a Windows SSD just for playing literally 3 games...

[iamahh]

https://betanews.com/2017/12/21/canonic ... r-laptops/

Kekonical changing business to bricks