Dual Boot Machines a Thing of the Past?

I’m a huge fan of, and supporter of Virtualization technologies. I’m an advocate all the way, both at work, and I use the technology at home. However I think I’ve decided to set my machine back up as a dual boot.

As great as Virtualization has gotten, there are still some things I can’t do in a virtual machine that I would want to do (on a home machine). I’ve flipped back and forth from running Windows native and virtualizing Linux, and running Linux native and virtualizing Windows.

When Linux is virtualized I have no 3D, so I can’t play with Compiz, and I honestly never even boot up the VM to “play”.

When Windows is Virtualize, I can’t play games, and I honestly never boot up the system other than to run a few applications that I can’t get working in WINE.

I have 3 HDD’s in my machine, and I never even come close to utilizing all of the hard drive space available, so I think I’m going to set up a dual boot. I do hate dealing with GRUB when it comes to managing a Linux/Windows Dual boot, so I think I’m going to install Windows on my Main (fastest) hard drive, then unplug it, and install Linux on one of the others. That way, when I power on my system, it’ll go into Windows by default (no GRUB to be found), and if I want to load Linux, I can “manually select boot device” from my BIOS startup screen.

Now - for the big decision - Vista x64 or XP x64?

EDIT: Nah - I think I’ll hold off on this.