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    That's why we need two ssds for dual boot (lemmy.world)
    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Never trusted this setup to begin with because I didn't trust Microsoft and I'm not all that capable or want to take time to sort this stuff out on a regular basis.

    So I just setup my ThinkPad laptop with two removable SSDs and I just swap one or the other whenever I need. The drive is easily switched, from power down, remove drive, insert other drive and restart only takes about two minutes.

    I'm not going to risk messing up my setup because two operating systems can't work with one another.

    Besides I seldom switch, I use Windows if I really have to about three or four times a year.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Wine won’t work?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I really wish Excel would work on wine. It's the only reason I do occasionally fire up windows on my duel boot. (And no the open source / browser based spreadsheet options don't always suffice, brilliant as they are).

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    I recently had this issue needing to run Excel macros. I ended up using Oracle Virtualbox to run Windows from inside linux. Even more linuxey is using Proxmox to run your Windows VMs but that's a bit more of a faff.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Don't use virtualbox, instead use virt-manager (KVM). KVM is faster and doesn't do awful stuff to their users.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Oh shit, that's awesome, thanks for the heads up!