Virtualisation
Today I gave up on waiting 5 seconds for explorer to open on my gaming laptop running windows. so i ditched it for bazzite, and for the first time in what feels like months I have used proton.
Proton, is a translation layer for video games on windows to run on a linux system. It is built ontop of wine which does the same thing but is not optimised specifically for video games. Both of these options have some overhead and inconsistency across devices.
But bare metal windows does not have this inconsitency across devices. I have also heard that windows in a virtual machine is very good at replicating the performance of running windows natively.
So, my idea is a philosophy essentially:
Rather than using a translation layer to run non native applications, lets just fire up a virtual machine and get the compatibility as if we were using it natively.
My idea specifically for the gaming part of it is to replace the shell in windows with steam big picture mode or something? and also to auto login which is something you can set in the registry.
This also means that if you wanted to do creative work with proffesional grade applications you could theoretically spin up a VM with an old x86 compiled version of macos and run an old version of logic pro or photoshop cs6 or something like that.