It sorta makes sense for a bunch of reasons: 1. You only have to deal with one Linux distro in the VM. Managing things across many distros can be difficult at

It sorta makes sense for a bunch of reasons: 1. You only have to deal with one Linux distro in the VM. Managing things across many distros can be difficult at that level. 2. There are times you want to blow away your environment. Can't do this if things running on the host. 3. You'll want to controll the resources your workloads uses so they don't make the Linux desktop unresponsive. VMs provide that level of separation. I could go on but you get the point. If you're a power user who wants it on the host you can do that. For the masses of this kind of product, a VM has a lot of advantages.