I have a friend who went through much the same process. I converted him to full-time Linux usage, and he stuck with it for a good 5-6 years, but eventually went

I have a friend who went through much the same process. I converted him to full-time Linux usage, and he stuck with it for a good 5-6 years, but eventually went back to Windows as his host OS so that he could conveniently play games, connect projectors, modify photos and video, and do all of the other basic things that only Windows and OS X users get to do reliably. He still does all of his development and sysadmin work from a Linux VM that runs on his Windows host. I've considered doing this myself, especially with WINE taking eons to implement adequate DX11 support (most games released in the last 3 years won't work), but it's a plunge I haven't been able to make yet. I think I'm going to just set a Windows box right next to my Linux workstation and move the mouse, kb, and monitors over when I want to do something Windowsy. The ideal would be getting hardware that supported raw GPU passthrough, getting a spare GPU, and doing all of the Windows stuff in a VM (this allows you to get 90-95% of your full GPU performance, and have the card controlled by the Windows system), which would really be the ideal solution IMO. However, I found that even the full technical manuals rarely mentioned if the hardware had the IOMMU, the require capability (both the processor and the motherboard must support), and that by far the vast majority of hardware doesn't. I have a dual-boot partition now, but I use it probably about once every 9 months, and mostly just to poke around for a second and see if it has spontaneously combusted whilst unsupervised before rebooting back into my workstation OS. It's simply too much hassle to have my primary workstation offline for hours at a time while I game, because it hosts many services that my house relies on. I also have a Windows VM that I do most of my photo editing in.