Can’t run Windows 11? Don’t want to? There are surprisingly legal options

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Why not put it in VM?

    The only thing I’d suggest if you do that is to have at least 32 GB of RAM, because I was in a situations where running few Electron apps, and Win11 VM caused RAM to fill up. But if you’re not running Electron apps you should be fine with 16 GB.

    And if you’re planning to play games, you could use GPU passthrough for near-native performance, but from what I’ve heard it’s a bit hard to set up.

    • jecht360@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Oh, I do both. My whole point was to avoid partitioning one physical disk to install both OSes on.

      My current setup:

      -Windows 11 installed on one NVMe. This is only for playing games that absolutely won’t work any other way.

      -Pop OS on another NVMe. This is my main OS.

      -Windows 11 VM in VirtualBox for work stuff and normal applications (Adobe…)

      Proc is a Ryzen 5 9600x. Machine currently has 64gb DDR5 RAM at 5200mhz.