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Old 08-21-2024, 12:02 PM   #13
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Not bothered with Dual boot since Dec 2016 (Win7 & Linux). A VM makes more sense if you he enough RAM (8 to 32 depending on Host & Guest OSes).

I have 256G SSD (NVMe /PCIe) and 2T HDD in laptop and that's very cost effective good performance. Linux Mint 21.3, Mate desktop and Vbox has XP, Win7 & Win10 that are not actually used!a
Agreed.

In practice I switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed early this year and have needed bare metal Windows for exactly two things since: firmware updates on my Surface Pro; and the specific case of needing an iTunes hack to restore an older version of Raivo OTP after the nonsense the new owner pulled. The latter probably could have been done with a VM but I had the bare metal available.
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