I’ve been dual booting Linux and windows for about two years now, but in those two years, I have never booted into windows, except by mistake.

This made me think about removing windows and just saving that wasted space for Linux. I only ever dual booted for the off chance the peer pressure to play anti cheat games was too great, but so far it hasn’t.

For the off chance where I want to play a game that doesn’t run well on Linux, is it a good idea to do that via VM instead of dual boot, or is it too much hassle? Will there be performance hit or any issues with those games?

  • EGirlEnthusiast@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well in terms of anticheat, VM’s require immense amounts of knowledge to avoid detection. Ive heard specifically that Rainbow Six: Siege will ban you for playing under VM, as well as Valorant. Dual booting is best to avoid anticheat, but if that doesn’t matter, then a VM with passthrough can be extremely performant.

  • Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I would recommend not using a VM with a passthrogh. Its a pain to setup and even if you manage to do it a lot of games with built in rootkits (kernel level anticheats) will still block you since you’re using a VM.

  • turdas@suppo.fi
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    1 year ago

    These days this is rarely that useful. The most common reason games don’t work on Linux is anticheat, and games with that kind of anticheat tend to try to stop you from running them in a VM too. There are ways around that, but it’s an annoying cat-and-mouse game.