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That was my experience as well. 2 hard drives, so I thought, why not dual boot? Surely, I'd need windows for some reason or another.
6 months later, I realized the same thing - I have a 1 TB drive doing nothing. I nuked it and never looked back.
Sometimes I run into some bullshit reason so I keep an old 120 GB SSD with Windows 10 in it so when I need I can plug it into my laptop.
The latest reason was, Xiaomi's bullshit bootloader unlocker that only works on Windows.
Do you need windows running on bare metal? I'm quite happy with a VM for all my windows usage. For example the mouse I use has a config tool that only works on windows
Most of the time a VM suffice. But when it comes to authenticating programs like that bootloader unlocker, I usually run into problems. Instead of trying to fix its problems, I find this solution easier. It's a 120 GB SSD I wouldn't possibly use otherwise anyway, so no hurt.
I just use a windows laptop for those occasions.
Fair point
What mouse is that?
I initially set up my dual boot with 1 TB to Windows, 3 TB to CachyOS, since I planned to commit to it but wanted the space on the windows side just in case. I've shrunken it down to 250GB and that's where it's staying.
I'm this close to just wiping out the dual boot entirely, but it is convenient to have around once every few months for some odd reason or another
Do you need windows running on bare metal? I'm quite happy with a VM for all my windows usage