The end result is that I can use Linux as my daily driver, but flip over to my Windows VM whenever I want to game. So far, things are working well and Windows runs the benchmark apps just fine. Windows 10 sits in a VM where it's given direct and exclusive access to a GTX 970 for graphics. I now have Arch Linux running as the host system where I do all my work. So I bought up a 5820K, a X99 motherboard, and an extra graphics card, and away I went. But wait! Apparently modern CPUs have this fancy thing called IOMMU I never knew about, which lets you give direct access to PCI-E devices, like GPUs, to a VM. I also didn't want a second tower just for Windows that's non-ideal. Dual booting isn't an option for me, because I tend to run various server VMs 24/7. But there's the caveat that is as old as Windows itself. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver.
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