Go virtual instead
You obviously won’t get 100 percent of bare metal performance from a virtualised instance of Windows 10, but it has a host of advantages. When you’ve got a) and use the included Boxes app (a front end for KVM/QEMU) to get your VMs up and running. Install VirtIO to ensure that all of the IO functions work properly, and SPICE to deal with 3D acceleration. And make sure you’ve accessed your BIOS/UEFI settings and enabled all the good stuff that makes VMs work well – specifically Intel-VT or AMD-V, depending on your platform. If you fancy a challenge, both VMWare ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V Server are pro-grade bare-metal hypervisors, which put a minimal layer between your guest OS and the hardware they’re working with, but they do require some pro-grade understanding to get the most out of them, so are beyond the scope of this feature.
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