After years of using VM's to virtualize Windows I finally broke down and got a real, physical Windows box.
On my space-constrained system, a VM often ended up feeling more of a parasite than a useful convenience. Initially I was just using a VM for running Office, but I eventually moved onto Visual C++ and running games from Steam. In the end, for my typical use case (developing windows software) performance in all areas paled in comparison to a real system. There was no real advantage to not using a real system.
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After years of using VM's to virtualize Windows I finally broke down and got a real, physical Windows box.
On my space-constrained system, a VM often ended up feeling more of a parasite than a useful convenience. Initially I was just using a VM for running Office, but I eventually moved onto Visual C++ and running games from Steam. In the end, for my typical use case (developing windows software) performance in all areas paled in comparison to a real system. There was no real advantage to not using a real system.
I feel comfortable running Windows as host and Linux as guest with VMWare Free Player.