I learned a lot about both Linux and virtual machines. I’d say it’s worth it if you think that knowledge would be useful to you. Proton and Wine-GE both do almost everything I could want but when something can’t or won’t work, it’s nice to just throw it into a environment you know it will work with. I think I keep all of five games on my windows vm, and I might need it for productivity software in the future.
There’s a few ways of doing GPU passthrough, as you probably know. I have an APU and discrete GPU, which allows me to use Windows like just another application on my Linux desktop by way of looking-glass and scream-ivshmem. It’s very convenient. I can imagine it would be less so if you’re looking at a single-GPU situation as I think you’d have to close your graphics session when you swap.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, who in their right mind would suggest Archlinux for a beginner?
I did this to follow some arcane manuals to hand my entire GPU over to a windows vm. It’s a neat trick and I’ve learned a unbelievable amount in a short time, but it can be frustrating as all hell and took probably a month of getting things the way they needed to be.
Please forgive me, I’m going to keep asking this everywhere I can until hopefully get an answer.
I love librewolf and I want to use it, but I can’t get it to render the symbols that some websites use to make their UI work. I’ve tried downloading fonts but they’re all mapped to private use area. I think they need to be downloaded on a per website basis but librewolf seems to categorically refuse.
I really want to stop using brave and I honestly don’t want to figure out arkenfox.
I haven’t tried the new update but this gives me high hopes for what my 6800 can chew through.