[g0v]

I work on an Ubuntu vm, the only reason I use Windows, really, is for games and likely just out of habit.

I don't think it will be much longer until I actually make the switch.

[dijit]

I wouldn't recommend pirating the games.

if you don't, and you don't do webbrowsing from inside windows then I can't imagine the need for anti-virus.

90% of attacks are trojan horses (fake/embedded pirated software usually) and the remaining 9.9% is browser attacks.

I doubt anyone is defeating your firewall/NAT box to get a direct connection to your windows machine, and even if they did they'd have to find a service they can exploit.

:)

[jamiepenney]

What are you using to run the VM? I've always had issues integrating the host and guest VM nicely in Windows - getting copy-paste working properly, resizing the window, etc.

[vetinari]

Both Vmware and VirtualBox work great - if you install the guest tools.

For some extra polish when running Linux VMs under VirtualBox on Windows, set the virtualisation mode to kvm and use virtio network device.