Yeah, that's a good reason not to, especially if you will need to have your Windows VM running constantly. RAM limitations was why I never tried running Linux

Yeah, that's a good reason not to, especially if you will need to have your Windows VM running constantly. RAM limitations was why I never tried running Linux as main OS and Windows in a VM on my previous workstation. I had 2GB but that was already being stretched thin by running Eclipse and Visual Studio at the same time.