That's basically my approach; when I want to run Linux (because the applications that run in Linux are useful for a wide range of things, and I'm very used to the command line), I tend to run it in a VM alongside / atop the Windows or OSX install that the hardware I'm using boots to.
The exception I regularly hit is raspberry pi, but in that specific case I (a) don't actually expect anything to really "just work" out of the box (the whole point of the platform is to hack around on it) and (b) I'm not trying to use it as my primary development / work / games / day-to-day environment.
The exception I regularly hit is raspberry pi, but in that specific case I (a) don't actually expect anything to really "just work" out of the box (the whole point of the platform is to hack around on it) and (b) I'm not trying to use it as my primary development / work / games / day-to-day environment.