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#1 2024-08-23 21:37:01

Frosty USA
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Registered: 2024-08-23
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Arch+ Win11 VM or Dual boot?

I'm currently daily driving a Win10 shell on Win11 and am a data science major with minor red hat experience. I finally had some time to pick up a Linux distro and have really enjoyed Chris Titus's videos. Because I enjoy fine-tuned customization, I am planning on installing Arch with a tiling window manager like Hyprland. I currently have an AMD RX 6800XT and a Ryzen 9 5900X. Looking at how Chris has set up Hyprland, he uses some incredibly expensive hardware.

Does anyone have recommendations for - dual booting Windows with Arch OR using a VM with GPU passthrough? I am under the impression that I would need an additional GPU for passthrough (which is probably fine). I can't tell if I can use my current Windows license for the VM if I took that path. I would probably just run Arch if Oldschool Runescape and League of Legends were compatible. If I did get a new GPU would it matter what I bought? Is there any benefit to dual booting instead?

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#2 2024-08-24 11:32:43

korewalidesu
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Registered: 2024-08-20
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Re: Arch+ Win11 VM or Dual boot?

If you care about maximum resource (want a full window experience), just do dual-boot instead.
If you decide to setup VM up, here is a bit fact you might want to know:

  • QEMU + libvirt can be abit hard to use on first time. But once you know most stuff, create new one or restore snapshot will become easier.

  • Use GPU Passthrough Manager to load VFIO driver for your passthrough GPU. This will help you alot since you don't need to use terminal to setup it properly.

  • Most anticheats tent to hate VM and some will ban you away. You can avoid this by patching QEMU and VM info stuff. There is a exception to this, Riot Anticheat (used for LoL and Valorant) is very intrusive on detecting VM, so if you really want to play Riot game, maybe try dual-boot instead. Or you can try your luck and hope LoL can launch on VM and not banned you right on start.

Last edited by korewalidesu (2024-08-24 11:33:46)

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