I used to have Windows and xwin32 and I would run my stuff on FreeBSD or Linux, and use Windows as my "mainstream OS when I needed to print things and/or listen to things."
Eventually my gear could run the Linux server in a virtual machine. Then I started running Windows in a virtual machine to avoid browser vulnerabilities (create a clean instance, browse for a while, then burn it).
I am almost to the point where I can boot Linux natively and run Windows in a VM (except for the occasional game) but I do less of that so its not as big a deal. I did an Atmel seminar where the whole time my "windows" machine was just a VirtualBox instance running full screen on my Lenovo T430. That was a perfectly acceptable experience.
I used to have Windows and xwin32 and I would run my stuff on FreeBSD or Linux, and use Windows as my "mainstream OS when I needed to print things and/or listen to things."
Eventually my gear could run the Linux server in a virtual machine. Then I started running Windows in a virtual machine to avoid browser vulnerabilities (create a clean instance, browse for a while, then burn it).
I am almost to the point where I can boot Linux natively and run Windows in a VM (except for the occasional game) but I do less of that so its not as big a deal. I did an Atmel seminar where the whole time my "windows" machine was just a VirtualBox instance running full screen on my Lenovo T430. That was a perfectly acceptable experience.