Grub and Windows update

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:57:18 -0500, Little Girl wrote:
>As a very occasional gamer, I found the job of making games work
>under Wine to be too much of a hassle much of the time.

I can't comment on this. My guess is, that it depends on the game.
AFAIK some games are well supported by wine upstream. Btw. wine-staging
isn't some "experimental" typically "staging" software, at least for
some purposes it's quite stable and usually already is even more
stable, than typically "testing/release candidate" software.

>I didn't like the idea of running Windows in a VM because of the
>possible hardware limitations when it comes to modern programs.

Some virtualizations are very close to the hardware. I'm just to lazy
to test hypervisors such as Xen, kernel based VMs, KVM/Qemu.
Those aren't that easy to maintain as e.g. VirtualBox, but IIUC
they provide more or less "direct" hardware access.

>I also didn't like the idea of dual-booting since there's, at the very
>least, an "awareness" of the other drive when one of the drives is
>booted and I don't want even a hint of a relationship between Windows
>and GNU/Linux on my machine.
>
>My approach was to buy a drive power switch unit, install it in a
>drive bay in my computer, and connect all my drives to it. This gives
>me push-button access to all of the drives, individually or in any
>combination. The advantages to this set-up are that I don't have the
>Wine hassles, don't have to worry about drive detection on boot,
>GNU/Linux doesn't exist when Windows is running, and Windows doesn't
>exist when GNU/Linux is running.

That's probably a good idea, but still kind of a {dual,multi}-boot
approach. It definitively rules out some pains, but rebooting is still
required.