if that's where you ended up on that task, i'll buy you a windows license
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that is in fact what happened
the problem isn't a windows license (pirating LTSC is a moral imperative) but the fact that in everyday interactions windows these days got less usable than late 2000s linux desktop
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i've watched my roommate--a person whose technical skills i respect--spend several weeks trying to set up a dual booting nixos/win10 system with uefi
i believe she's on the fifth reinstall from scratch, and having seen that breakage, i know i won't do much better, either
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Used to be in a tiny IRC channel with someone that used Xen to be able to run Windows for gaming with PCIe passthrough. 90% of their posts in that channel (not really a technical channel) was complaining about PCIe passthrough breaking and asking for help debugging it.
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yeah I've tried it, hit an issue with PAT/MTRR and write combining ranges in graphical memory, tried fixing it, decided KVM it is (I might actually set up KVM with PCIe passthrough if wine doesn't work out)
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I personally prefer having Windows on a totally different machine for gaming. For some reason I still have my better GPU in my workstation from back when I thought dual booting was a good idea but... that'll be fixed when I replace it with a new workstation.
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I have a spare TB nvme waiting for me to drop linux on it in my big workstation, and I've been looking at various distros update behavior in fear. I think systemd-boot is going to be ok, but half the distros hold it wrong
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I have quite literally been considering starting a distro just to get sane updates and reasonable systemd purity recently.
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Depends what you mean when you say sane updates.
On my workstation, I want the current stable release of software and minimal hassle so I use Arch and make Debian stable containers with debootstrap and systemd-nspawn to deal with legacy things not fond of an up-to-date system.
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I mostly mean I want something like a more modern take of the system I designed for fuchsia, but moved over to linux, which is too different to describe in a tweet.
clear is close, but clear has some unfortunate opinions in weird places, and they don't accept patches
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I'd like a desktop OS using an approach like update_engine with a well-defined core base system and then containers for development but it doesn't exist (ChromeOS doesn't count) so I just stick to something that I get the closest to unaltered software with upstream defaults.