My reasoning is one machine, one OS. Rebooting just to do a task is a waste of time.
This is why I run Windows these days, even though I'd rather be running OpenBSD. I can play muh games, and I can ssh into muh workstation to do muh develops.
On Linux/BSD, I can do development work (cuz command line), and newer desktop environments are shiny enough to not mind using as a desktop. Only problem is no games. And don't tell me Linux has over 2000 games on Steam. It does, but I'd lose over 230 of the games I actually want to play on Steam if I switched to Linux.
Stop dual-booting.
>people are doing something i don't
>hurr durr stop it
>>55042162
I stopped dual-booting in 2008 because at that time I realised I was never playing any games anymore anyway and that I had become a lot more proficient in Linux than I ever was on a Windows system.
>>55042220
OP here.
I used to quad-boot back in the day when I was distro hopping a lot and was only using Linux for a few years.
I also used to dual-boot between Windows and Linux as well, using Linux most of the time and only using Windows for certain things. Or if some thing I tried to do in Linux didn't work.
I regret buying so many Steam games because I feel tethered to the platform now. Part of me just wants to consider it a sunken-cost fallacy and just drop Windows, and stick to the occasional console and handheld gaming instead.
I also don't like how all my games are x86-based, since I dislike the direction that CPU architecture is heading. Intel's shit with Intel Management Engine is scaring me, and who knows if some other architecture may become king someday?
>>55042282
grow out of muh gaems
find something better
PC: Windows 10 for muh games (mainly DotA 2 with friends)
Laptop: Oobongo
There you have.
>>55042432
you can play dota 2 on linux
it's one of the few games that run flawlessly
>>55042162
Why not just get a solid state drive?
Shutting down linux and booting windows takes about 20 seconds.
>>55042540
Part of the reason is because I use full-disk encryption on everything, and I have along-ass password I have to enter on boot. It'd get really annoying to have to enter it constantly when booting into either Windows or Linux.
>>55042162
>Rebooting just to do a task is a waste of time.
Obviously. Nevermind the fact that you lose your entire setup.
That's why you should use only GNU if you can, and GNU with a windows VM otherwise. This is the most productive, safest, most free setup you'll get.
>>55042162
duel booting windows 7 and 10 for compatibility issues, also have a windows 98 virtual machine for muh old ass erotic vidya
>>55042162
Rebooting takes all of ten seconds and you can save all your open programs. It's a non-issue.
>>55042618
No one actually cares about "free" you RMS shill. And GNU isn't an OS.
>>55043813
>And GNU isn't an OS.
Any distro which is Stallman-approved is a GNU OS.
