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I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:39 pm

I made the switch to from macOS to Windows 10 for my primary desktop OS at home

Two factors played into this:

1) consolidation (life changes afoot)
2) Apple's lackluster Mac lineup - prep for the upcoming fall??? (deja vu of 2006 when I switched to Ubuntu on the desktop)

The transition has been relatively painless:

- Windows does not come close to macOS when it comes to multiple display management, windows management, or desktop management. What is there is acceptable tho (Windows 10 makes 7 look unusable in this regard)
- the addition of the Bash Shell is so fracking awesome I cannot express how I really feel (running htop makes me giggle) although I wish I could figure out how to get ctrl-c to work :(
- I bought a Microsoft Surface keyboard to replace my Apple wired keyboard. I really like the Surface keyboard although the "slick" keytops are kinda weird
- lack of a Apple class touchpad is a pain. It would be cool if Microsoft were to release a Surface trackpad as I think that would be wicked even on a desktop setup (mouse for gaming tho)
- iTunes! Ya, I said it. Having iTunes on a Windows PC is awesome
- lack of Apple Messages on Windows is a pain. I work around it by having my iPad Pro on my desk as a secondary workstation
- top tier gaming on the desktop = Yay!
- VMware Workstation = Ubuntu :)
- The cloud is the icing on the cake that makes this possible (iCloud, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, Office 365 + Office, vSphere (via the browser), Skype, Hangouts, Chrome, Plex, Synology, etc)

I'm running Windows 10 Pro Build 15007
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:55 pm

So unless Apple fixes it's issues with their increasingly lacklustre Mac lineup, we can expect more MacOS power users switching over to Windows 10 or Linux? Somehow I'm not surprised that you switched.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:56 pm

1. I agree. I always miss it when coming back to Windows after the work day is over.
2. CTRL+c works for me in bash. I know the below doesn't show it, but I used CTRL+c
adam@ROMULUS:~$ sudo apt-get update
sudo: unable to resolve host ROMULUS
[sudo] password for adam:
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease [65.9 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease [65.9 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main amd64 Packages [573 kB]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages [938 kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted amd64 Packages [13.4 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages [148 kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse amd64 Packages [4,136 B]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en [317 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [16.4 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages [392 kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse Translation-en [2,201 B]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Translation-en [3,357 B]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en [87.2 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [14.0 kB]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main Translation-en [460 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en [7,340 B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted Translation-en [3,847 B]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en [208 kB]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en_US
Fetched 3,320 kB in 11s (282 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
adam@ROMULUS:~$ dig www.techreport.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.8-Ubuntu <<>> www.techreport.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60814
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.techreport.com.            IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.techreport.com.     356     IN      A       96.126.115.201

;; Query time: 51 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 18 20:50:50 STD 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 63

3. I'll stick to my MX blues :)
4. I agree. I do hear the newer precision trackpads on some Windows laptops/convertibles are nearly as good though. You might check one out.
5. Ooof, no thank you. No iTunes for me on my Windows machines. Granted the times I have used it in the past few years on PC, it has worked fine. Not like the days of yore when it was buggy and laggy and completely awful.
6. Messages would be nice, really nice. Even something, doesn't have specifically be messages for me, that just seamlessly let you text/call from your PC as well as Apple does it. I have been wanting/waiting for this for a lonnng time.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:02 pm

End User wrote:
- Windows does not come close to macOS when it comes to multiple display management, windows management, or desktop management. What is there is acceptable tho (Windows 10 makes 7 look unusable in this regard)

What?! I bounce between macOS, Linux Mint, and Win10 daily and I LOATHE the window management on macOS. Window snapping is, well, a snap on Windows (and Mint!), but putting two windows side by side on a Mac? GOOD LUCK. You have to make things fullscreen/"app"ified and then drag another one over and argh!! Just let me view two things side by side you courageous UX designer idiots!

Aided by a touchpad, I agree macOS has better workspace management. But when using exotic external hardware like say, a standard USB 2.0 mouse and keyboard, it becomes as much of a pain as on Windows.

Multiple displays on a Mac have given us so much grief at work. External monitors of all sorts sometimes blink or go to digital static. Macs are more particular about cable quality and more receptive to interference than other notebooks. Sometimes external monitors flat out don't work. Sometimes after pulling an external monitor while sleeping the Mac just refuses to wake up properly (or until the update a few months ago, it'd sometimes kernel panic). You can forget using a standard USB 3.0 display adapter unless you want to use third party drivers, because macOS doesn't come with enough common drivers. Multiple displays on a Mac are the blight of our programming existence. IT has had to order slews of dongles and adapters just to get the frikkin things to work properly because we keep discovering new problems.

Meanwhile on Windows, window management is best via keyboard like God intended:
Win+arrow keys: window snapping, maximize/minimize
Win+Ctrl+arrow keys: swap workspaces ("virtual desktops")
Win+tab: View current workspace windows
Moar: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... -shortcuts

Now that I've been using all 3 major OSs daily for the past 9 months, I tolerate Windows, like Linux Mint, and hate macOS. I have an entire laundry list of why I hate macOS, and window/desktop management is at the top of it. Such a shame, because the Mac hardware is quite decent. At least macOS makes a pretty hypervisor.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:05 am

I also bounce between macOS and Windows, and I mostly agree. As far as I can tell, there's no hotkey to create a new virtual desktop. The hotkeys are clunky (Ctrl + Win + arrow is OK, but once you get to the end/beginning you can't cycle back around). macOS virtual desktop management is a bit more slick. I'd like different wallpapers on each virtual desktop, too.

I like window management in Win10 just fine. Win + left/right snaps, Win + up goes maximized, and Win + down minimizes. Those actually make sense, as opposed to Opt + Cmd + = and Opt + Cmd + - or whatever it is.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:17 am

Did someone say they were looking for an Apple Class touchpad for windows?

Did you look at the Logitech T650?    My supervisor has one and loves it.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:19 am

mackintire wrote:
Did someone say they were looking for an Apple Class touchpad for windows?

Did you look at the Logitech T650?    My supervisor has one and loves it.


Ehhhh, it's not so much that IMO as it is the gestures and interactions are better on MacOS than Windows. That's not to say you couldn't find a solution to mimic MacOS touchpad usage, but it just doesn't work as well on Windows. It's SO MUCH better on W10 than ever before though.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:36 am

Duct Tape Dude wrote:
What?! I bounce between macOS, Linux Mint, and Win10 daily and I LOATHE the window management on macOS. Window snapping is, well, a snap on Windows (and Mint!), but putting two windows side by side on a Mac? GOOD LUCK. You have to make things fullscreen/"app"ified and then drag another one over and argh!! Just let me view two things side by side you courageous UX designer idiots!

Ugh, yes. I spent some time searching for a tool to enable window snapping a little while back, and found this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betters ... 5580?mt=12

It's great. Maybe Apple should get courageous, and hire the dev.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:19 am

derFunkenstein wrote:
As far as I can tell, there's no hotkey to create a new virtual desktop
Win+Ctrl+D
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... -shortcuts

Arbiter Odie wrote:
Ugh, yes. I spent some time searching for a tool to enable window snapping a little while back, and found this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betters ... 5580?mt=12

It's great. Maybe Apple should get courageous, and hire the dev.
Thanks for this. If there's one thing I've noticed about macOS it's that there is already some disgruntled dev that is picking up the ball that Apple dropped. Unfortunately these devs either have to charge money (like BetterSnap) or drop old support for their product (like Karabiner) and we're left in the cold for a while. Ah well. Stupid macOS.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:33 am

Duct Tape Dude wrote:
derFunkenstein wrote:
As far as I can tell, there's no hotkey to create a new virtual desktop

Win+Ctrl+D
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... -shortcuts

Arbiter Odie wrote:
Ugh, yes. I spent some time searching for a tool to enable window snapping a little while back, and found this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betters ... 5580?mt=12

It's great. Maybe Apple should get courageous, and hire the dev.

Thanks for this. If there's one thing I've noticed about macOS it's that there is already some disgruntled dev that is picking up the ball that Apple dropped. Unfortunately these devs either have to charge money (like BetterSnap) or drop old support for their product (like Karabiner) and we're left in the cold for a while. Ah well. Stupid macOS.

In all seriously Apple should really improve MacOS and include features that power users and professionals want and need. Apple is now mainly a dongle manufacturer that also make computers. 
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:36 am

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I'm running Windows 10 Pro Build 15007

Every time I try running insider preview builds the experience just falls apart for me.  I know they're not supposed to be flawless but I have no patience for updater issues *sigh*
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:02 am

I think window/desktop management is one of those things that's going to feel terrible any time you change it. It wouldn't work well in the first place if it didn't get ingrained in muscle memory at least a bit. That said, (a) I'm curious how it works on MacOS, because I've really got no clue, and (b) I think for power users Linux auto-wins this one, because you can set it up to work precisely as you want. I know I couldn't get my config on Windows/MacOS without some serious hassle, and I'm more efficient with it than I could ever hope to be on Windows (or normal Linux) defaults.

Duct Tape Dude wrote:
derFunkenstein wrote:
As far as I can tell, there's no hotkey to create a new virtual desktop
Win+Ctrl+D

Thanks, that'll be useful when I have to use Win10 for whatever reason.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 5:48 am

synthtel2 wrote:
I think window/desktop management is one of those things that's going to feel terrible any time you change it. It wouldn't work well in the first place if it didn't get ingrained in muscle memory at least a bit. That said, (a) I'm curious how it works on MacOS, because I've really got no clue, and (b) I think for power users Linux auto-wins this one, because you can set it up to work precisely as you want. I know I couldn't get my config on Windows/MacOS without some serious hassle, and I'm more efficient with it than I could ever hope to be on Windows (or normal Linux) defaults.

Duct Tape Dude wrote:
derFunkenstein wrote:
As far as I can tell, there's no hotkey to create a new virtual desktop
Win+Ctrl+D

Thanks, that'll be useful when I have to use Win10 for whatever reason.

KDE's defaults for many things irk me, but nearly everything can be customized. I use virtual desktops extensively, and have hotkeys set up for virtual desktop navigation (Ctrl-Alt-<digit> directly selects a desktop by number, and Ctrl-Alt<arrow> cycles through them).

Interestingly, I haven't found a way to set a hotkey for virtual desktop creation; however, I find that I don't really need one. I just have it configured for 10 desktops, and use them starting with #1 (which always has my e-mail client open on it). Having extra empty virtual desktops does not seem to consume a noticeable amount of system resources, so I see no harm in always having 10 of them active.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:26 am

Your post hit home. I'm still deciding wether to get a mac or windows machine for college. I had both before....but like you say the terminal is a huge plus especially for a soon to be programmer but i also want to do some heavy gaming.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:38 am

techie19 wrote:
Your post hit home. I'm still deciding wether to get a mac or windows machine for college. I had both before....but like you say the terminal is a huge plus especially for a soon to be programmer but i also want to do some heavy gaming.

If you want to game, get the Windows machine and make sure you've got plenty of RAM (16GB min, 32GB would be better) and a CPU that supports VT-x (pretty much all do these days AFAIK). That way you can have your games and run Linux in VMs for your programming classes as needed. Best of both worlds.

Windows 10 also has near-full support for running unmodified Ubuntu CLI binaries now, so you might not even need the VMs for some of your programming stuff. That said, familiarizing yourself with a full-up Linux install (at least in a VM, if not on real hardware) is probably better if you're going into programming though!
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:18 am

techie19 wrote:
Your post hit home. I'm still deciding wether to get a mac or windows machine for college. I had both before....but like you say the terminal is a huge plus especially for a soon to be programmer but i also want to do some heavy gaming.

Unless you want to be an iOS developer, where macOS is absolutely required, I'd get a Windows machine. If you really need to do stuff in Linux, VirtualBox is free and pretty easy to set up and use.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:27 am

Its not all unicorns in "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows".

They havnt brought over everything. Like /proc/net*. You'll have problems here and there, like web server for example is trying to enumerate interfaces so you need to change the code to hard code it in...

It's pretty good SSH/SFTP/Vi client.

The other MAJOR issue, is the filesystem access. The native home directory is accessible by Windows Explorer, but you wont see anything you put there via Explorer inside of Bash. Now, there is no issue setting up ssh/sftp and sftp-ing stuff into and out of your Windows Download directory for example, just the ubuntu filesystem.

A killer feature for Win 10 Pro is nested VMs for Hyper-V, so you can run Hyper-V Docker inside a Windows VM and leave your laptop host OS pretty pristine.

Anyway, to be fair, i cant say its clear cut Windows winner. A lot of demos/git repos out there assume you're running on an Apple laptop(just saying you have to fiddle a little, out of box experience isnt 1.2.3.). Can't deny reality of Apple laptops being popular with devs for plethora of reasons. Expect this last round of updates with virtual Escape key and lack of 32GB RAM option. Tried another developers brand new 15" touchbar Escape key with Vim and it wasn't end of the world, but didnt feel efficient either.

Hyper-V comes with Windows Pro.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:44 am

For college, I really don't think it matters that much to be honest. Though, you're far more likely to have some programming classes based in Windows than you are in MacOS. My particular university used Gentoo for almost everything CS so Linux in a VM was more or less a necessity unless you wanted to be at the lab at all times (no thanks).

VM'ing your Linux distro of choice should work fine on either WIndows or MacOS. I don't think you could good too wrong with either, but if you really want to game there is no substitution for Windows.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:53 pm

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- I bought a Microsoft Surface keyboard to replace my Apple wired keyboard. I really like the Surface keyboard although the "slick" keytops are kinda weird

Flat, contourless keys, with a smooth surface and large gaps between the keys... Instead've $100, I'd give them a dollar to get it out of my face.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:59 pm

It's like Microsoft made a full-sized version of the Apple wireless keyboard, or a wireless version of the Apple keyboard with number pad, or whatever they call it.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:25 pm

End User wrote:
- the addition of the Bash Shell is so fracking awesome I cannot express how I really feel (running htop makes me giggle) although I wish I could figure out how to get ctrl-c to work :(


Yes bash really is freaking awesome in Win10. With it there isn't anything you can't do.

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I'm running Windows 10 Pro Build 15007


If you really want to nerd-out get a copy of Win 10 Enterprise. Three techs that are just awesome: DirectAccess, App-V, and Windows to Go. Cozy up to someone with a MSDN license and have them give you one of their keys.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:36 pm

It's irritating to me that I need to run Windows as a Host. WTH is wrong with virtualization and 3D accelerators? This *has* to be a solved problem...
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:57 pm

Vhalidictes wrote:
It's irritating to me that I need to run Windows as a Host. WTH is wrong with virtualization and 3D accelerators? This *has* to be a solved problem...

It is solved. It's just that CPU and mobo manufacturers choose not to fully/properly expose the functionality on consumer-grade gear and instead reserve it for the workstation-grade stuff.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:03 pm

Captain Ned wrote:
Vhalidictes wrote:
It's irritating to me that I need to run Windows as a Host. WTH is wrong with virtualization and 3D accelerators? This *has* to be a solved problem...

It is solved.  It's just that CPU and mobo manufacturers choose not to fully/properly expose the functionality on consumer-grade gear and instead reserve it for the workstation-grade stuff.

I'm not sure that I follow, Cap'n. For one glaring example, assuming that I *have* this functionality in hardware what happens when I try to install a NVIDIA driver on a Win10 guest? It won't even fail, because it won't get that far; the VM environment will list the 3D hardware as "S3 or compatible" or "WDDM adapter". 

The bare-metal hardware won't be exposed to the guest driver subsystem regardless. And as nice as the WDDM driver might be, I'll need more than base OpenGL/Direct3D support, I'll need the specific functionality that only a NVIDIA or AMD driver can provide.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:12 pm

It won't be exposed unless you pass it through to the VM, but with consumer gear that's very often easier said than done.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:28 pm

Redocbew wrote:
It won't be exposed unless you pass it through to the VM, but with consumer gear that's very often easier said than done.

VT-d, while on a whole bunch of spec sheets, isn't well-supported (or supported at all) in the consumer range. Properly-functioning and supported VT-d is what's needed to make the passthrough to the VM work.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:38 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if there was more to it than just growing pains also. Both AMD and Nvidia would much rather have you buy a Quadro or a Firepro if you're going to be virtualizing the GPU anyway.
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:42 pm

Discrete device assignment, 3rd paragraph, havnt used personally, been waiting for it to come to Window 10 Pro from Server.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 2:53 pm

blahsaysblah wrote:
Discrete device assignment, 3rd paragraph, havnt used personally, been waiting for it to come to Window 10 Pro from Server.

Thanks! That's awesome, but since I'd have a Linux Distro Host it wouldn't really apply. I don't have the $ to shell out for a 2016 Server license.

Cap'n, thanks for pointing out that VT-d had that feature, I wasn't aware that device passthrough was a part of that. I thought it was just for better access to Host RAM/NIC resources.
 
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Re: I made the switch to Windows 10 as my primary desktop OS

Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:09 pm

Vhalidictes wrote:
Cap'n, thanks for pointing out that VT-d had that feature, I wasn't aware that device passthrough was a part of that. I thought it was just for better access to Host RAM/NIC resources.


Passthrough is what VT-d is for.

If you are running a linux host, there are recipes & guides out there that can show you how to do what you want with a GPU:

https://wiki.debian.org/VGAPassthrough
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PC ... h_via_OVMF
https://bufferoverflow.io/gpu-passthrough/

It's easy to tell if your CPU supports it, and any recent GPU (like anything in the last 3-4 years I'd imagine) supports it.

The motherboards are more tricky. That's what everyone is rightfully warning you about. Following a recipe and buying an enthusiast board someone already knows works is the best option. That sort of limits you, though.

I'd imagine the situation is getting better with time. A cursory check of recent Z170/Z270 boards show that all of their manuals at least claim they support it now. They might be buggy and problematic, but it's 2017 and their firmware guys are probably getting better at it.

So, assuming your CPU supports it and your motherboard actually works, you just have to deal with making sure you have another GPU/monitor available for your host OS.

Because, remember, you've passthrough'd the GPU to the windows guest OS! Linux can't use it anymore, the host gave exclusive access to the guest! :lol:



But, as the above guides show, you have to get your hands a little dirty. It can be done, but you have to be pretty comfortable with linux. It's not something that any package automagically setups for you. Because, at the very least, you need to tell your host OS's linux kernel that it shouldn't be trying to load a nouveau or whatever driver for that GPU.

If those guides make your headspin, then that's part of the answer to your question about why it hasn't taken the world by storm yet. :P

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