Depending on your hardware, Desktop Linux may work much better in a VM on a Windows host than booting the machine directly to it. Far more stable, less screwing

Depending on your hardware, Desktop Linux may work much better in a VM on a Windows host than booting the machine directly to it. Far more stable, less screwing with configs to get everything working. You know suspend will work (in the form of saving the VM's state). You get snapshotting, and not just of the disk, which can be really handy. Easy to clone machines for complete isolation of e.g. work projects. Depending on your workflow this can be nicer than one machine with multiple accounts (see again: state-saving suspends, even across host reboots). Even more true for the BSDs and other, even more obscure operating systems. Not really viable on portable machines, though. Too much power use. Desktop, however, is great.