Can I use Ubuntu as my main OS but and use Win 7 on a different hard drive?

Expertcrafter2000 · Oct 2, 2013

I want to use Ubuntu as my main operating system, (Basically I want to see Ubuntu like it is the only operating system on my PC).
But, being a hardcore gamer my wish is to be able to play all the windows only games. My question is, can I basically run windows in the background but and launch all my games and stuff from Ubuntu, but they use the background windows 7 to run. I am not foreign to coding, and am willing to mess around with the code. I just want it to seem like I am using Ubuntu yet all my programs run off of windows 7.

USAFRet · Oct 2, 2013

I just want it to seem like I am using Ubuntu yet all my programs run off of windows 7.

Not the way you're thinking.
You can either:
1. Have each OS on a separate drive, and choose at boot time,
or
2. Run WINE in Linux. Note: Some things do not work well with WINE.
or
3. Run Windows in a VM under Linux.

drtweak · Oct 2, 2013

If you want to run the two OS's at the same time you need a program like Vitural Box or VMWare. Only thing is you can't game in it. You can dual boot where you have 2 OS's on different hard drives but if you want to switch you have to restart the PC and select the OS you want to use.

Expertcrafter2000 · Oct 2, 2013

drtweak :

Oh ok thanks!

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