Anybody still dual booting nowadays?

I'm been out of the DAW scene for a few years and now contemplating on getting back to it. I used to dual boot my system for DAW all the time. Considering the systems nowadays + Windows 10, are people still dual booting their system and run their DAW on a separate boot partition?

I gave up on dual boot when everything (i.e. plugs that I use plus utility software) finally become available as 64bit. I actually retired the last dual boot system when I migrated everything to win10 in June 2016

cheez
Did you notice any noticeable difference when you moved from dual booting to single boot?

no, but to be honest I did not use the 32 bit installation a whole lot - that was more of a fall-back option and a mean to test if some issues were related to the mix of 32 + 64 bit plugs.
 
for almost a year everything on my system that I really use is 64bit (I only have a few minor things like fantom control remaining as 32 bit, but I rarely use that) ... and since monthly updates got so reliable that I update my system more often than the previous twice a year interval, it made no point to keep doing that for a dual boot ...
 
 

cheez
The reason for dual booting is not to use a 32 bit OS alongside a 64 bit. The argument has always been to have a clean registry, minimal background running processes, no antivirus, no eye candy, slim and an optimized system.

I understand. With PCs dedicated to DAW only work I got that anyway ...
 
Actually, staying away from dubious soundcards, ASIO4ALL plus having a dedicated DAW only PC is key to happiness