"Horses for Courses" That's the great thing about computers and
the most confusing for a lot of users - there are many ways of doing
the same thing and what works for one doesn't work for another. I've
found WinXP in Virtual Box to work perfectly for the few programs that
still need Windows but the bulk of stuff is done in Ubuntu. It's
mainly Pagemaker for the village magazine that I need WinXP for, and
that's only 11 times a year so no big problem doing it that way. Less
hassle than porting over to Scribus when the job is already set up for
Pagemaker and works fine for that task.

You find dual booting to be more effective for the way you use the PC
and that's perfectly OK - we both do it differently and neither of us
is 'wrong' in what we do