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Windows machine running a Linux VM at 4K 240Hz (blog.enkhayzomachines.net)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Genuinely great blog post!

This is perfect for !linuxmemes@lemmy.world though: "nah I don't want to switch to Linux, it's hard. I'll just compile QEMU with some patches to run VMs on Windows"

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    If you fully make the jump to Linux, you should test from the other side with QEMU+KVM and see about spinning up a Windows VM with GPU passthrough.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I did exactly that when I switched to Linux a couple of years ago. Took around a week to setup, it runs well enough, but you lose the use of your main gpu under Linux that way. I tried lutris for gaming under linux and quickly realised the games run very well via wine. O in my opinion the qemu windows with gpu passtrough is not really worth the hassle nowadays. All games I tried work just as well via wine/proton.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yep my intention is to do that as soon as I switch, honestly the biggest obstacle for me right now is gaming (I'm unfortunately on an nvidia gpu so I'd get like 20% or more performance penalty with the drivers currently shipped for most distros, a little too much for me) hopefully it'll get even better

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you try to run the game from the windows vm yes the perf are bad.

    But try to play these game from linux using wine/lutris ou protom/steam and you could be surprised

    My games were running better (really better) on archlinux than windows 11. And i have also a nvidia card (RTX 3090 FE)

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