“I’m building the kids a box with Vista 64-bit just to irritate them. I’ll dual-boot Ubuntu which will REALLY irritate them.
Why dual boot? Run it on a virtual machine.”
Not all apps like the virtual machine. Best to let them run natively whenever possible.
I've never had any problems w/ VMWARE running (relatively) high-availablility production apps. Various Windows and Linux distros.
Dual booting sucks.
(Hey, have I mentioned on this thread that you can change users in Vista (eg. to correctly manage UAC, you really have to) and still listen to the audio from the original? I'm really getting to like Vista!!!)