Recent content by sadsteve

I've never used the Home edition but, couldn't you just create a local admin account after installation and then only login to that account from then on? If you don't want Microsoft to know your email address there's a number of sites that provide throw-away email accounts (good for 24 hrs or...

I'm liking MX Linux. I've been using it for a few years now and really have no complaints (lot less complaints than I have for Windows!). I originally dual booted Linux and Windows but now run Win 11 in a VM, mostly for gaming purposes.

I have dual graphics cards, one for the Linux side and one for the VM. I'm running an AMD 5950 with 32GB RAM so each side has 8 cores and 16GB RAM.

God I'm glad I switched to Linux as my main OS after Windows 8.0 came out. I pretty much only crank up my Windows VM for gaming (games that won't work under Linux).

Oh boy, more stuff to dread with the 24H2 update. I'm glad I do most of my computing task in Linux.

You forgot about Windows 8.0! It was Windows 8.0 that got me to switch to Linux as my main OS. I now have a Windows VM, mostly for the games that won't work under Linux.

There's always pulling the key off and applying a bit of glue.

Hope it works out for you. It's so much better than dual booting

Ah, I didn't know they did it only in the paid for version. Thanks for the info.

I highly recommend going the KVM/QEMU/libvirt route. It was relatively easy to get the GPU passthrough working. Again, I was lucky that I had a motherboard that would split the PCI lanes between the 2 connectors. I"ve also heard that ProxMox works well too.

I built my first computer (in 1978) based upon the z80 and the S100 bus. It was a tremendous learning experience designing and building boards for the system (lots of wire wrapping). Very fun times. I've still got my copy of "the Z80 microcomputer handbook" by Willian Barden Jr.

Sorry about the diversion.

Yea, I've start looking at new motherboards and want one with 2 16 lane pci slots (purchase would be a long time away yet). My current motherboard splits it into 8 and 8. Not that I've really noticed the difference between a 16x vs and 8x slot. Just getting a more modern GPU with more memory...

That's a clever idea.

Run the script you can find in the first article to display your iommu groupings. You should be able to see how things are laid out.