From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88CDA1396D0 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED0571FC0A2; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56CDA1FC009 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([173.239.210.21]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.174]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MXmpv-1dxOZq0h7P-00WlsC; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:16:33 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Peter Humphrey References: <4214538.FFuQGbLWd5@peak> From: "Taiidan@gmx.com" Message-ID: <1f6e8c78-1ef5-22cd-2e1e-c7c1df901647@gmx.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:16:30 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4214538.FFuQGbLWd5@peak> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:jiN7r5CKG9yFgZqbFj07WjF4rYjS16LF3SS654mslkJM2I30jt5 fqIsKU4iFumHJzCp/hTdrzkNJOeXs7sgqIXWhWgoyN3xTV0yR2MiXlgT8I8Rn038IR/ne+j j2fyKVuTPQ44bYRqI6s4J67jkLc1YzLMJDxf7IbPmVoUEzJQugyDndPtXcR+UeTHIb/p6iK 7TB7Pm6Rky1Tn0gNIrLQA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:EqlTKEjkc1w=:8K0KaJ3AE4MTVvd7gxm1UT 2/fY0+LhvriGzx5vvKpwY6HCcU7B31lyV6sC44MTFlOR7Of+83X7FO9uoj5SPmr/vEq+Q1xP6 iKOMMqKcbrwAeoAcxAE6qQtYiJPWFSH/W29OnvjbMlkxm6NTrQMAjByrNknp0p074JjFAfzQS XaBcsC3Lmc+M2SbtDG3Eoquwg3mqwBCHHuEOaMTy5rird6MDIOBvVggt+22sHD2+DiOhUOEpw uiYmqj/h6JANm8cb7C5FNnacVljBw3ShkQMyUrlFAl6BJ6LpOKFLfE1Cg/EHSBT1YlF5XobKj Gs7wAnhtakPcYKHqsYWOWVx2UhT1U4sbj+OHEqux7F7lS4mo7OCk77oogO2U21l7x702qdczK CRc4m6LrhRuua9pURz+uDOycQF9W0sVyORrxds723PsmOYC5uXt1jKlaTBtNwqhysGR22xKID xexNZv7nJuN/gRTOvfKHr7ptEt+d770DTzlEALbQvIze0FXezL6/dAIoSwmxZYs4kYbJf+3Yj QooUxCk9I1U7XdgsQrGLnUsmRNmz+Vtbe1kLhmZOXH/aiJq0BepPT+N1STrp9+eyLVnJGIEoV rxwTVA9w81Hn5kjKPlHdLLtBpK5H3stJdpXQNPTCb7of0a8M6nfbJyya2KitzNYxl7fmaDVNU MlF4ZPEV8701HvJhyikB9k2dhoeElPE9Mfxl+1nhLkVQ4etteGEm5j2vJCSeWb79CIkOI0x7K l9wd/+qrJRHjc9IwtmY3Vf8lImrOyPHeyHMqMqoj1Fa9UUfzrRec16A9p8W86Gbyt28k0HNFC ywTdkOxvb9NO+aeLzqGKx58ztXRbBZH/xjMJqTML+0TeiIAgR4= X-Archives-Salt: 9f032203-fc14-4bf2-b3fc-ac83c999037b X-Archives-Hash: a3477871c3232c976d7825706108e0cf Install it in a VM! If your system supports IOMMU for graphics devices here is something special you can do: I would instead consider purchasing an additional PCI-e graphics device and a PCI-e usb card then installing Windows in a VM with IOMMU-GFX, this way you can have your cake and eat it too. I play my games in a windows VM on my libre coreboot workstation, it works great and I highly recommend it Another reason a VM is much better is that windows doesn't get access to your bare metal hardware unless you forward a device so it can't send serial numbers back to MS for their spying/marketing database, such as your HDD serial number or NIC mac address, and one can avoid a bad virus as you can simply restore a previous VM snapshot. [1] (for the VM's keyboard and mouse if you don't have more than one usb controller onboard)