I think there's a way to fix it but I had to disable secure boot to work this week.
I've had way more issues with windows 11 than with linux Mint. Like way more.
Overall Linux gaming is pretty sweet tho I agree. Lutris is incredible.
Plus I like the work/play divide that booting into windows provides
It will catch up though. I'm a happy user of the steam deck
And I know when I do it'll take probably an hour to get all the updates out of its system. Ugh.
I have an Intel NUC that has it's original Windows (10) install on it's internal spinning rust drive, and Ubuntu on it's NVME SSD (and a pair of USB drives in software Raid 1)
It's the Windows box I keep around for odd but specific tasks like the running the 3D wing and airfoil simulation software I have, or the CNC mill firmware update tool that only runs Windows. It's also got a few Windows only 3D modelling tools and GCode creation tools that I occasionally need for the laser cutter or CNC mill or one of the 3D printers.
99.9% of it's time is spent booted into Linux running Emby and PiHole and Home Bridge and doing file server duties.
I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had needed Windows for a specific videogame or program, i would still be dual-booting today.
Virtualization?
I also keep windoze in as minimal space as I can using linux full-time to update lenovo firmware on my tb4 dock and system periodically as I've been burned with firmware updates under linux, so 128gb of a disk for windoze is usually a small sacrifice as a fallback.
It doesn't hurt to have intact alternate OS's ready to go.
I might only use one Linux regularly but there's a devuan and a vanilla windows (+patches from ~1 year/6mo. ago) - it's really no big deal leaving them be. It's just disk space.
windows will probably get nuked soon cause it's on a gen4 NVME - not using that is a waste.
I have a stable/secure Linux and an experimental Linux on my trusty old T430, but I need a Windows instance for testing.
I haven't seen it used much in the enterprise though.
For me, it's way easier to keep a "hardware Windows machine" available than to debug why these things don't quite work right in a virtualised environment every time I need to use em.
The circle is vlosed.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040Z924Q
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084H5ZKPT
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9HK4QG
at only $1.72 per gram, it's the greatest bargain in the computer market today.
I just meant, if the SSD was slid in and out, bare, by itself.. it would feel like a floppy experience.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZJNR91
(really they do one thing and it's this. They practically have a corner on the “aftermarket hotswap drive bay accessory” market, and they have more variations than anyone can imagine :V )
Honestly I would love to try the "hotswap M.2 bay" or "hotswap U.2 bay" things, but it really does drive home how uneven the NVMe future is. Consumers get maybe two NVMes on their motherboard, meanwhile you need 16 pcie lanes to drive a 4-bay hotswap thing. We live in a society where a 1-socket server might have 24 nvme bays attached to it and yet consumers can't even populate an addon bay for their gamer case. (bottom text)
really does drive home the lack of pcie lanes on consumer stuff (given how much pcie continues to be the defacto standard for high-speed expansion) and the death of the "workstation"/"HEDT" segment as being a relatively accessible thing. Nowadays there are client machines and servers, and precious little in-between. You almost might as well just buy an Epyc (ROMED8-2T looks really nice) or just buy a used server as a backend/fileserver/NAS.