16gb ram. nvida GTX1650. Triple monitors

want to run existing windows 10 installation in VM, with write access. This is mostly for tax software.

plan is new SSD drive. Make 2 partitions for windows, with backup to both. Let it be C: drive? Then reformat PCIe M2 drive for linux.

I only care about the VM not FUBARing the windows installation, even if I have a 2nd backup of it.

I play one game that has a linux version: beyond all reason.

I’ve used debian/ubuntu based linux before. I don’t need/want to highly customize performance/features. Just working out of box.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caOP
    3·
    10 days ago

    thank you. Don’t like making web account for tax data.

    and make an image of the already existing Win10 partition to run in a VM.

    can image make changes to itself when running?

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 days ago

      You just “snapshot” the existing disk and run it in a VM like VirtualBox or something. Then that new disk image works as the “new” disk for the VM.