new box

[Verde Denim]

All
Just built a new machine...
AMD quad-core X64 Phenom 2 on a GIGABYTE mobo with an NVIDIA XFX GTS 1GB
DDR3 graphics card
flying 16GB of Corsair 1600 DDR RAM.
(originally a game box for my son but he bought an alien so it's mine)

It seems most of the components will run with Ubuntu, but the dilemma is
this -
I want to run Ubuntu as a primary with Win as a virtualbox within it. I've
had some scary slow performance problems in the past
running mickysoft in virtual under Ubuntu.

Have others here on the list got an opinion strongly in 1 direction or the
other (win w/ubuntu as virtual vs ubuntu w/win as virtual?)
my school uses win, as well as a few things at work, but I try and do
everything I can under linux as of a few years ago, and, aside
from the occasional gameplay, I don't miss the dumbed down OS environment at
all.

Any input is welcome. I'm trying to decide how to kick this monster off
prior to adding the 3Tb of disk storage in...

Regards,
Jack
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