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The future is Linux desktop with a near-perfect Windows compatibility layer, or ran in a VM with near full performance and no latency.

Currently this is only possible with GPU passthrough on expensive hardware (Intel's HEDT motherboards are the only ones known to have viable IOMMU groups).

https://virgil3d.github.io/

Something like this could potentially do the same thing with 1 GPU on any regular PC hardware. There's no Windows or D3D support yet though.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

linux is painfully complicated and inconsistent and arcane but ive constructed a neat, carefully arranged environment in which I ignore everything else and am able to run most of the things I want, and use plan9 for everything it can be used for.
soon, when it has video players, linux will be merely a means of running touhou in wine, a web browser, and a server for my chat programs to make their files available to the nice system.

Whatmin spoiler this shit