Dual booting is very easy. You need a separate drive/partition for each OS. Hard drives are cheap enough so I’d just get another one. You can also boot Linux off a USB stick.
I wouldn’t use Photoshop in a VM unless you have a huge pile of memory to allocate to it.
[[I wouldnt use Photoshop in a VM unless you have a huge pile of memory to allocate to it.]]
I have 16 gig of host memory, and allocate 10 gig to the VM-
I woudl love to use another HD but not sure how I’ll mount it in my machine’s cramped quarters- I do have antoehr HD as a secondary one inside the machine which i use strictly for backup/storage