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GuardCalf 6 hours ago

You can just use Windows and run your required Linux distro inside WSL2. That's exactly my setup—I'm a heavy user of both, as I need both systems daily.

markaius 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In my experience, I've seen this get messy having to have some apps on the windows filesystem and reading and writing back and forth to the WSL layer for various files. It works, it's just a degraded experience compared to what I have seen going all in on either side.

pixel_popping 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a reason you don't do the contrary?

zamadatix 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You get the hardware/driver support of Windows, things like GPU/drive/network/window sharing in the out of the box config, and there are very few graphical apps for Linux which don't run graphically in Windows in the first place (but the reverse is not as true).

I loved it for my work laptop but then Apple Silicon MacBooks came along and forced a main OS due to the hardware (though nowadays Asahi is pretty good on the older ones). I suppose on a home use case you get big multiplayer game DRM support as well (different people will consider that a plus or minus).