Question Dual boot or second user?

[GMHague]

So, I'm about to do a new build for my studio/office and the Win 11 PC will have a dual purpose — one as a hobbyist DAW and the other for writing/editing research. I'd like to keep the two separate, meaning have all my DAW software, plugins, portal apps, etc on one boot up and nothing else, nice and uncluttered, while the second bootup will have Word, Outlook, Chrome ... all the messy office stuff.
Is a dual boot the way to go? Or is there an easier solution? It's just occurred to me I'd need two Win 11 licenses, right? Is two Users a simpler solution?

Thanks for any advice.

EDIT: I won't necessarily upgrade to Win 11. A few threads here suggest I won't benefit from that.

 

[stonecarver]

Amazon.com

Amazon.com

As much as I love duel booting I have migrated to using these.

If one system goes down it's completely isolated

Just choose button 1-4 on smaller one and your choice of what drive boots. Just examples

Button one Windows 11 + games
Button two Windows 10 work
Button three personal stuff windows 10/11
Button four the dark side where you need to test out stuff and if it gets hosed by bad software that's why it's there. Windows 10/11
Most cases don't have a spot for a DVD where the larger Kingwin 6 button fits. I'm old school so I use this model. Just giving you options 😀

 

[hotaru.hino]

Two users is a simpler solution. Unless you can definitively prove that having all of that stuff will cause an issue with the DAW software you're using, I don't really see any benefit in dual booting.

 

[GMHague]

Thanks everyone, I'll dig a little deeper into my workflow and figure it out.

 

[CountMike]

So, I'm about to do a new build for my studio/office and the Win 11 PC will have a dual purpose — one as a hobbyist DAW and the other for writing/editing research. I'd like to keep the two separate, meaning have all my DAW software, plugins, portal apps, etc on one boot up and nothing else, nice and uncluttered, while the second bootup will have Word, Outlook, Chrome ... all the messy office stuff.
Is a dual boot the way to go? Or is there an easier solution? It's just occurred to me I'd need two Win 11 licenses, right? Is two Users a simpler solution?

Thanks for any advice.

EDIT: I won't necessarily upgrade to Win 11. A few threads here suggest I won't benefit from that.

Another solution Virtual Machine, run less important SW in it hosted in more important windows installation.
2. Install as dual BOOT on another disk. For simpler needs 125-250GB SSDs are dirt cheep nowadays and both installations will be independent.