I’d like to run Linux Mint with Windows in a virtual machine for some apps like Affinity, some games and more… I’d like it to be primarily AMD… So I figure I’d need 32 GB of RAM, and maybe 1TB SSD… But what would you guys suggest for the optimal experience. I don’t need the absolute best in framerate in games, but an average good performance, maybe par 4060(ti) for mobile, or something?

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 days ago

    you will find stripped down versions of windows (i.e windows 10 lite) with low ram consumption. I run windows 10 with 2GB of RAM. Of course if you will play games you would need a lot more than that.

    Virtualmachines dont usually provide good experiance for graphics intense apps. I would strongly recommend wine or proton instead.

    steam runs on Linux so if your games on steam you may not need windows.

    • Ardens@lemmy.mlOP
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      17 days ago

      But as I wrote in the title, I’m going to run Win11… :-) I was thinking about Oracle VirtualBox…

      • downhomechunk@midwest.socialEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Make sure your laptop bios allows iommu to be enabled. This is the only way I know to pass your GPU directly to a VM. And even this is still pretty fiddly.

        Don’t dismiss the steam/proton rec. Or dual boot.