Better still, there's dual boot; and with virtualization, you could even run both at the same time :) Had that setup for a while: Win7 as the host - had some p

Better still, there's dual boot; and with virtualization, you could even run both at the same time :) Had that setup for a while: Win7 as the host - had some proprietary sw there that wouldn't run in a VM - and Kubuntu with the usual office apps on a separate partition, where I could either physically boot into it, or run it as a VM. Since it didn't share any partition with Windows (data was shared via VBox Shared Folders), all was OK. (Tried the other way around, but Windows - and the programs I was using - were really picky about HW changes and paravirtualization; didn't work so well.)