Grub and Windows update

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 31 Jan 2020 21:48:05 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Usually only the video (?) and NIC are "simulated" with Xen and KVM/Qemu.  I 
guess the "hard" to maintain is just a lack of gratuitions point-and-click eye 
candy.  *I* found VirtualBox to be a royal pain in the ass to deal with and 
Xen and KVM/Qemu *very* easy to maintain.  I guess because I am a CLI guy.

> 
> >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.
> 

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