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?

Hi cheers,
I still dual boot. I don't know if you really have to anymore, but I do ;-)

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

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

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 ...
 
 

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.

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

Still dual booting, both drives 250GB and Win10 64bit.
 
I wouldn't want to risk running SONAR on the same drive which has 3rd party firewall/virus/spyware blocker and steam installed on it.