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I think that's what I will eventually do. Right now it's still dual boot.
Apparently there's a way to run a vm from an actual disk partition, as long as you can be sure only the vm has access to the partition(s). I haven't tried it myself yet though.
It works pretty well. I did it with virtualbox.
Works great on VirtualBox - essentially, create a 'raw VMDK', and set up a virtual machine with that. Back when I thought that Windows was still worth dual-booting, I used to have it installed 'for real', but also installed so that I could boot it via VB. I always used to run Windows Updates when it was started in VB - that prevented the updates from making any BIOS changes and fucking up my GRUB configuration. It was also handy for file sharing and such like. Had far fewer problems with Windows in general that way, too.
Eventually, I realised that gaming on Linux is just fine, and the work-arounds were less effort than stopping Windows from shitting the bed in a dual-boot configuration. That was years ago; Linux gaming has come on a long way since then, too.
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /path/to/file.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdahttps://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/adv-storage-config.html
I was pretty worried I was gonna bork my drives so I never went for the full pass through. Sounds like unnecessary risk to me.
Dual boot is like the hardest way because you have to stop using one to start the other. Virtual machine is the way to go IMO. Though I don't have a Windows VM atm...