If you have all the indi drivers already, you may not need windows a lot and the dual boot option is just fine.

Perhaps the following is interesting for you.

I have an ASUS PN50 with Linux (Ubuntu 20.04.xx LTS) single boot without display, but with Windows 10 in a virtualbox VM. Devices are connected through a powered USB3 hub on the telescope (Moravian C4, C1, Teleskop control), 10Micron Mount via TCP/IP. I can connect to Linux with ssh/nomachine and to Windows with RDP.

Of course, you could do it the other way around as well. Which one works better for you depends on your preferences.

Dual boot has the advantage, that both systems will perform well - but you have to attach a monitor and keyboard when you want to boot in the non-default system.

Installing Kstars/Ekos/Indi in Ubuntu is working quite well. You may have to set up additional repos, but it will install without conflicts.

This setup works fine, although the Windows VM does not perform well (virtualization is not fast enough for USB3). Nevertheless, it is good as a fallback and for testing. I was hoping to use ASCOM on the virtual windows machine and use those windows only devices through Alpaca in indi on the linux side, but this doesn't work, because Alpaca does only provide one way access (accessing indi devices from windows but not the other way).

Currently, I am only missing a driver for the telescope control system (focuser, heating, etc.). So I started writing an indi driver and I got it working within half a day. I will submit a PR once it is polished and properly documented.

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