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It happens 🤷 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by 0x4E4F to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (5 children)

You guys have windows partitions?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I keep dual windows on laptop for rare occasions cuz I don't like dealing with passthrough for special USB cables that require their own drivers on VMs

[–] 0x4E4F 6 points 7 months ago

Yep, pretty much the same reason, just have to use it, mostly because of software that interacts with hardware, in one way or another.

[–] Batbro 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

USB cables require drivers? 👀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Well USB to serial port to some weird custom 6 pin connector for a certain machine.

Or car data link adapter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The ports do, it’s just that they’re built in every kernel nowadays.

[–] cyanarchy 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not on bare metal, for this reason

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Need for interacting with hardware, so yeah, have it on bare metal, plus in a VM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any reason you can't just pass the hardware through to the vm?

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because it needs SATA emulation (needs to communicate natively with SATA devices), and that's still not a thing in KVMs as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Always use a condom to interface your bare metal and windows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I do. I wanted to finish something there that I couldn't easily move to Linux. A DVD project using files scattered accross the system in DVDStyler. I didn't notice DVDStyler works on Linux.
Now I am basically keeping it due to sunk cost fallancy. It has lots of menus and videos, plus some of them I cut myself. But I don't even remember where I ended. There was also something about color limitation in menus I wanted to fix. I last shut it down during an update about 2-3 years ago.
But who knows, maybe later at some point...

But I could really use those extra 400GB. I only have 15GiB free right now...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I installed one when I made my first Linux PC last month in case I needed to use Windows for anything that wouldn’t work fine enough on Linux.

One month later and I still haven’t used it for anything. I think I may have underestimated how fleshed out the Linux ecosystem is these days.

[–] Jack3G 1 points 7 months ago

I've been delaying moving my root arch patition from my HDD to overwrite my old windows install on my SSD for months.

I feel like the potential problems that that could cause aren't worth the better loading times from the SSD.