I've been a Linux user since the first kernel was made available around 1991, and a Window user since 3.11, and a DOS user before that, and a CPM user before that, and a Trs-DOS/LDOS/NewDos/Combasic (My own DOS) user before that. We adapt or we die. Today, I use Linux with Ubuntu-Mate 24.04 as my primary workstation but dual boot and/or run Windows in a KVM/Qemu with vGPU pass-through for gaming, and Ubuntu 24.04 for my server infrastructure. Tomorrow? Who knows, I'll bridge that cross when I come to it.
I've used kvm and terraform to deploy an alpine vm (for testing). I've used qemu with FreeDOS in termux on android to run doom and some other old DOS games.
With Windows 10 coming to end of support, I would never want this cancer to spread on any of my hardware for the rest of my life. So I want to leave Windows for good - except gaming.
Do you do something like run steam on a qemu windows vm? And is enabling the vGPU passthrough easy?
Enabling a vGPU pass through is an entire bear and a recent kernel upgrade broke mine and I haven't figured out how to get it to work again. I am mostly playing a very old game called flyff. I've been playing for almost a couple of decades, I remember it becoming available around the end of 2005. It's been sold several times and each time they promise to migrate your character to the new owner and each time they fail and I've had to start over. Presently I am playing on Insanity Flyff.
Nanook
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in reply to Nanook • •I've used kvm and terraform to deploy an alpine vm (for testing). I've used qemu with FreeDOS in termux on android to run doom and some other old DOS games.
With Windows 10 coming to end of support, I would never want this cancer to spread on any of my hardware for the rest of my life. So I want to leave Windows for good - except gaming.
Do you do something like run steam on a qemu windows vm? And is enabling the vGPU passthrough easy?
Nanook
in reply to anonymiss • • •almost a couple of decades, I remember it becoming available around the end of 2005. It's been sold several times and each time they promise to migrate your character to the new owner and each time they fail and I've had to start over. Presently I am playing on Insanity Flyff.