i want to switch from windows to qubes, how do i keep windows?

[theaccountemail]

i want to use qubes as my main OS but still keep windows for gaming. i don't know anything about GNU or operating systems in general for that matter. how to i take the windows 10 i already have and put it in a qubes virtual machine?

 

[USAFRet]

i want to use qubes as my main OS but still keep windows for gaming. i don't know anything about GNU or operating systems in general for that matter. how to i take the windows 10 i already have and put it in a qubes virtual machine?

1. Running games from Win 10 inside a VM is problematic. You won't get nearly the performance you need.

2. You really need to learn a lot more about qubes and Linux before you make the jump.
To get your feet wet, you can run qubes directly off a USB for a while. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/live-usb/

3. You can probably encapsulate your current Windows OS into a VHD, and run it as a VM.
Here - Disk2vhd https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

4. Make good backups of all this before you do anything destructive.

5. See #1.