I run Win 8 on a Surface Pro now with the rest of the setup same as yours. Running Windows gets you the benefit of near-perfect hardware compatibility. Run Linu

I run Win 8 on a Surface Pro now with the rest of the setup same as yours. Running Windows gets you the benefit of near-perfect hardware compatibility. Run Linux on a new laptop, and there are always issues. I just don't have the patience to fix it all. It's not always the usual stuff like wifi drivers, now it's more stuff like power management. In a VM, everything just works perfectly.