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I've been using a similar workflow for years. My host OS is Windows 7 x64, which gives me all the strengths that Windows is known for with regard to multimedia, gaming, and high-end software compatibility (e.g. Photoshop.) For dev work I run Ubuntu using VMWare Workstation. It's very fast and I get to have the best of both worlds.

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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.

I run a similar setup. OS X for Photoshop, gaming (don't laugh, Steam on OS X is passable) and day to day, and then do all my development in VMs using Vagrant.

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