Here’s the thing. Dual booting sucks dead bunnies through a straw. For one thing, I like to leave my email app (Thunderbird) open all the time. Dual booting–notsomuch with the always open email client. No, it’s either check all my email accounts in webmail (which is another level of suckage altogether) on one “side” of a dual boot or keep transferring emails from one “side” to the other–even worse suckage.
Enter Thunderbird Portable. Slap the thing on a lil ole 4GB flash drive, set it up to handle ALL my email accounts, transfer emails from my inbox, etc., to it and bob’s your uncle. I can carry my email around with me and not have to put up with the Suckage Maxitudinous that is webmail. I still don’t like the limited dual booting I still do, but with more and more reliance on VMs, even that is down to a minimum (although I did frag two Windows VMs in VMWare Server over on the Ubuntu drive by updating the hardware config file in VMWare Server. Oh. Well. Easy-peasy to reinstall ’em).
Yeh, it does mean I probably will need to archive old mail/clean out the dead wood more often, since I use that flash drive for a few other portable apps (Opera Portable, Clamwin Portable, Filezilla Portable, etc.), but that shouldn’t be too big a burden. I ought to do more of that anyway.
This is sooooo much less stressful to think about/deal with that what the criminals, liars and buffoons (Oh! My!) in Congress are doing to this nation (with the willing compliance of the enstupiated sheeple that keep putting them in office).