Is Dual-Booting worth it?

Dual-Booting two NT5 Operating Systems seems redundant to me. But in most other situations (Dual-Booting Multiple UNIX variants or Windows and a UNIX variant), it's invaluable. I use Linux 99% of the time and when I feel like gaming I usually boot into Windows.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Unless you're doing what Arainach is doing and using Linux as your primary OS and gaming with Windows (Linux hates your hardware anyway) then dual-booting is dumb.

Not really. I used Linux as my Exclusive OS for a few years. Played HL2, CS:S, CoD, and all my games just fine. Mild (about 20% I'd say) performance loss, but still quite playable. I went back to a dual boot because there were a few proprietary apps I had to use for a semester or two that I couldn't get running in WINE, and during that time I just started using my Windows partition for gaming.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Do you mean the same partition or the same drive? I'd never risk dual-booting ANY two versions of Windows, much less x86_32 and x86_64 , on the same partition. I'd do 3 partitions - One for the Windows 32 Installation, one for the Windows 64 Installation, one for all your programs.

Most amazing jew boots

Not really. It's missing a lot of key features. For instance, MCE can't authenticate to a domain, period.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Actually, it doesn't mean shit. CPU power has NEVER been the issue. It's access and control over hardware that prevents you from effectively running simultaneous OSes.

I was speaking idiomatically.