I'd consider dual-booting the best option and personally I use this when Windows is a requirement. Everything works (just follow the wiki steps) EXCEPT when you try to use a TPM, which is painful to say the least. If you use normal (or no) disk encryption, then go for it. TL;DR- Pros: - Everything works flawlessly (I mean, as flawless as running only linux) Cons: - Secure boot/disk encryption with a TPM is going to be painful. Without a TPM, there's no issue, though. - If you are new, there's always a chance you'd mess up the first time (I remember, during my first Arch installation, I accidentally deleted the Windows bootloader). Although I agree, VirtualBox really sucks. If you want to use Arch on Windows, I'd say try out either Hyper-V (requires Win Pro version) or VMWare (good features are behind a paywall). If I use Arch on Windows, I do it without GUI using Hyper-V (although I've never tried Hyper-V's RDP-like thing), and if I need GUI I just run an X-server on Windows. Or, you can run Windows as a VM. I don't see any reason (taking into account your hardware and windows software needs) why this might be a problem for you. On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 3:32 AM <joerg.jellissen@t-online.de> wrote:

Hello,

i have a problem.

I would like to go back to ArchLInux, but i must use windows for most software like a DocumentScanner (Fujitsu Siemens ScanSnap IX500) with OCR Software, ABBY Fine Reader and so on, i have a LabelPrinter (Brother QL800)

My Hobby is Photography with my CANON EOS 80D. I use Luminar 4 to edit my pictures. I found another solution called darktable. But only for this.

I have a PC created by myself in 2015 with specs

CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.60 GHz

RAM: 18 GB

SSD: Samsung 250GB 840 Pro Series for my OS

HDD: WD 2TB as my primary data drive

Is it a good choice to install two OS on my system?

I like Linux, so i began to learn with Debian 5, with Linux Mint, a little bit Manjaro and for few months ArchLinux.

I like ArchLInux.

Is it a good choice to do this or is there another option to use both OS.

A Windows VM with VirtualBox and Boxes doesn’t work fine ☹ i don’t know why

So this is not an option

Please can you help me by my brain storming.

Many thanks

Hi! El jue., 5 nov. 2020 a las 23:02, <joerg.jellissen@t-online.de> escribió:

[...] CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.60 GHz RAM: 18 GB SSD: Samsung 250GB 840 Pro Series for my OS HDD: WD 2TB as my primary data drive

First for all, I have a similar setup. In my case I have a 250GB SSD and two data drives, first is 2TB and second 1TB.

Is it a good choice to install two OS on my system?

Yes. I explain. I'm an Arch Linux user since ¿maybe 10 or 15 years ago? I don't remember... Always have dual boot for Windows and Linux. The reason is simple, I'm a "gamer" (no, I don't do Twich videos or have a YouTube channel, only like play computer games). For this reason I need a "video game console", that is Windows. :-D For everything else I use Linux, for work, for browsing Internet, for whatever. With dual-boot I don't have any problem. If I need use my computer, boots Arch, and if i want game, boots Windows. In my case I have this: - In SSD disk (250GB), the first 150GB is for Windows (with the 3 partitions that Windows 10 need), the remaining 100GB for Arch Linux. - The 2TB disk is for Windows data (games need space). - The 1TB disk is for Linux with two partitions, first one (smaller) is for swap and secon one (much bigger) for data (I have several mounts of this disk, for downloads folder, for virtual machines, etc). The installation process is very simple. First for all install Windows reserving the 100GB in SSD for a Linux partition and when you have Windows running install Arch Linux in the reseved partition. If your computer have UEFI you can use systemd-boot for menu choices, if not, GRUB. And there is all. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me