> And dual booting is rarely needed anyway and generally just a pita. Just always boot into your preferred OS and virtualize the other one when you really need it.
I've been dual-booting linux since the kernel 2.2.x era and being able to do it was a major driver to migrate away from windows. It is super important for onboarding of new users that can't yet get rid of windows fully - mostly because of gaming (yes proton is nice, but anything competive that uses anti-cheat won't work yet is the majority share of gaming). And that is the reason I still boot into Windows on my dual-boot machine: Gaming. For me that windows is just a glorified bootloader into GoG or Steam, yet desperately needed and virtualization won't solve anything here.
Ideally rather than dual booting I would welcome something like running both OSes in sort of a virtual machine but being able to switch between them as easy as with a physical KVM.
Having to actually restart a PC is a pain in the ass which is why I don't dual boot.
is a pain in the ass? All the virtualization solutions are moot for gaming due to anticheat (plus 3d graphics virtualization not really working for windows)
I've been dual-booting linux since the kernel 2.2.x era and being able to do it was a major driver to migrate away from windows. It is super important for onboarding of new users that can't yet get rid of windows fully - mostly because of gaming (yes proton is nice, but anything competive that uses anti-cheat won't work yet is the majority share of gaming). And that is the reason I still boot into Windows on my dual-boot machine: Gaming. For me that windows is just a glorified bootloader into GoG or Steam, yet desperately needed and virtualization won't solve anything here.