If you’re already on a Linux-based operating system, and you gotta run a real instance of Windows for some reason, your safest bet from both a security and privacy standpoint is to run it in a virtual machine (I like VirtualBox, personally, but VMWare, or whatever else will do the job fine also) and firewall the hell out of it. In a virtual machine, you can totally lock it down as much or as little as you need for the task at hand, and ain’t a damned thing Windows itself can really do about it, and as an added bonus, it saves you from the required reboots of dual-booting. It’s confined to a “safe space” (until you start opening enabling network stuff and opening ports to it). You’re in control.
Gnu boxes makes it pretty easy. Use the VM behind a VPN and don’t allow access to your host. You can just mount the virtual volume to share any data you need to back and forth.
If you’re already on a Linux-based operating system, and you gotta run a real instance of Windows for some reason, your safest bet from both a security and privacy standpoint is to run it in a virtual machine (I like VirtualBox, personally, but VMWare, or whatever else will do the job fine also) and firewall the hell out of it. In a virtual machine, you can totally lock it down as much or as little as you need for the task at hand, and ain’t a damned thing Windows itself can really do about it, and as an added bonus, it saves you from the required reboots of dual-booting. It’s confined to a “safe space” (until you start opening enabling network stuff and opening ports to it). You’re in control.
edit: or QEMU/KVM (with virt-manager)
And if you spend a bit of time with it, you can even pass a graphics card to the VM if you’re limited by the VM’s specs.
As well as having a dual boot partition or drive but opening it in a VM when you can split resources or dual boot when you need the full system
Gnu boxes makes it pretty easy. Use the VM behind a VPN and don’t allow access to your host. You can just mount the virtual volume to share any data you need to back and forth.