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  • The second hard drive can be linux native file format and you can run an individual(duplicate) install of each there. SATA/SSD will be plenty fast for these games.

    It’s a temporary solution until she’s comfortable enough with linux to ditch the windows install. So the wasted space(Windows install/drive) can be reclaimed and reformatted later on.


  • Assuming your wife is new to Linux: Get secondary hard drive and boot Linux off that, set Linux to first entry in grub. If your wife ends up frustrated with Linux then she can just boot back into windows instead of dealing with undue frustration and possible resentment.

    Windows 10 still works fine and will continue to for a long time (you’re literally running a win7 VM). If you’re worried about security or whatever just don’t use it for sensitive stuff. For gaming? Security updates don’t matter.