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.
Not if you have a modern BIOS
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.
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.