[practicemaths]

Genuine question. What's the practical difference between duel-booting and running Win-11 in VM?

I understand there's some performance differences, obviously. And VM requires perhaps a bit more setup and understanding.

However, is it reasonable to VM Win-11 to mediate SB concerns AND be able to have access to basic windows software and services since they're used a lot by industry and universities?

i.e. that is I just need access to Onedrive and MS office for the most part.

[not_the_fda]

If its just basic apps, there is no reason to dual boot, a VM is less of a hassle.

If you want to run games, then dual-booting may be necessary if proton won’t work for the game you want to run in Linux.

[dkersten]

GPU passthrough should work for a lot of cases. The games that are most likely to have problems are the ones with draconian drm or anti cheat. I avoid those, so protón tends to work for me anyway, so I don’t bother with windows.

[dwattttt]

It prevents Windows from running under it's own hypervisor, which it does to provide additional security (some configurations allow certain crypt operations to happen "outside" Windows).

[jansommer]

It would work great if NVIDIA, AMD and Intel made high end consumer GPU's that could be shared between host and guest. So far we can only share Intel iGPU's - at least on paper, because I haven't managed to make it work.

... Or hack NVIDIA gpu's and potentially brick your 2000$ card...