Dual booting is great if you're working on a low resource machine but I think now a days if you're running something like an i5 with ~8 gigs of ram and an SSD y

Dual booting is great if you're working on a low resource machine but I think now a days if you're running something like an i5 with ~8 gigs of ram and an SSD you might as well just use VMWare with unity mode. The main issue with dual booting IMO is that 2% of the time when you need to use a Windows app you need to break your entire work flow and reboot to use it. Often times you want to use that Windows app while you're still developing in Linux so it's a huge bummer. Unity mode allows you to run both operating systems together in a way that makes it feel like you're running both Linux and Windows as a single OS. Complete with being able to pin Linux apps to your taskbar, dual monitor support, share drives/clipboard, etc..