I am not looking for software alternatives. Is the best method still to dual boot?

  • osbo9991@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Dual boot sucks because Windows likes to overwrite partitions critical to booting Linux without warning.

    You could use Virtual Machine Manager (GUI frontend for QEMU/KVM, the most performant VM software on Linux). Here is a good guide on how to optimize the settings for a Windows 11 guest. I’ve used this guide to get SolidWorks, a CAD program, to work decent, so I assume other professional programs like Lightroom will run well too.

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      13 hours ago

      separate drive with rEFInd as boot manager is fine. Windows will sometimes still alter the boot sequence to make it take priority, but that’s a relatively quick fix and doesn’t happen all that often.