![]() This one would probably be the easiest, but I just know that I would end up sticking around in Windows the whole time. My ideal situation is to be able to run one OS on one monitor, and another on my second, but I believe that would require another GPU? This also gives me a chance to play with a whole bunch of different setups as well as ease in regards to snapshots etc. (Correct me if I'm wrong on all of that tough lol). I don't know what the situation is with drivers through VMs, I thought that it would be handled by KVM so I could run something like Big Sur, but if that's not the case then I would be limited to High Sierra as that's the latest version that supports Nvidia web drivers. My main concern is performance impact (I also straight up don't understand where to start with things like GPU/USB passthrough etc.). I like this idea because I don't want to allow myself to get into the habit of of just sitting in the Windows install all the time, and I know that I probably would as well out of laziness. Install a stripped out Linux Distro (or maybe Proxmox or ESXi?), then run 3x VMS: A Linux Distro as my main day to day, a macOS VM to handle Adobe CC, and a Windows VM purely for EAC Games. Here's a few ideas I've had in my digging around that could work but I don't know the best way to tackle them. I daily drive an iPhone and used to daily drive a MacBook for a number of years so I'm very comfortable with macOS as well. Next on my list of upgrades would be RAM, then either a beefier processor or maybe a higher end AMD GPU. I have 2x 1080p monitors, and I also have a TV connected which is just a mirror of my second monitor to handle couch gaming. Currently have a 2TB HDD to store all my files on (home directories in Windows are relocated to the HDD), a 240GB SSD to hold my Windows install, and a 500GB SSD that is currently unused (only installed it into my PC a week or so ago). My PC specs are as follows: R5 3600, 16GB RAM, GTX 970 GPU. Also not entirely sure on the best Linux based software to do this, assuming GIMP would be best for the work I do with the PSD. Issue here is that it's paid work and I can't really afford the down time so I can't really go all in on Linux whilst I learn everything. Most of the work I do involves picking apart the PSD of album artwork, splitting out the layers, and then animating portions in AE for short 1 min Instagram videos. Most of my Steam Library is Linux native or Proton compatible - but the game I play the most is Dead By Daylight which is an EAC title so no luck on the Proton front. I mostly do MIDI and Sample based stuff so any suggestions on DAWs and sample managers would be greatly appreciated I currently use the ADSR Sample Manager. Now Ableton isn't much of an issue I don't mind learning Ardour, and Vital has a Linux native option which I've heard some good things about, and I don't use Ableton for paid work so the downtime whilst I learn the new tools. I feel like I'm familiar enough with Arch based distros (mainly Manjaro, also dabbled with Arco) that I would be happy to move forward with an Arch Distro (although I've heard people say not to use Arch on a main machine because of the nature of a rolling distro, I've also used Ubuntu before so may be worth exploring something Debian based?). I've finally had enough of Windows but there's a few things I rely on Windows for, namely Ableton + Plugins (Serum mainly, also Ableton's M4L Convolution Reverb), DeadByDaylight/Fall Guys (EAC), and most importantly Creative Cloud (mainly After Effects and Photoshop, occasionally Premiere Pro). ![]() Not sure if the title articulated properly but I was wondering about the best way to go about this?
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