So I want to Linux, but:

You're retarded.

That's because it's tailored so specifically to Apple hardware that it reads ID chips for fan controllers and internal LCD panels, and will fail to boot and/or utilize these devices unless it verifies them. Unless you need XCode, there's no point in using locked down iBaby OS with Bash version 3 and no good apps. All good software out there is made for Windows and Linux, and most Windows software can be run on Linux using WINE.

The only real answer in this thread.

Dual boot you fucking retard, there's literally nothing wrong with it. You can just nuke your Linux partition and restore the MBR with a Windows recovery disk if you end up not liking Linux, that shit takes a minute at most.

If you can, try to move everything over to Linux, if you can't, then use both.

Virtual Machine

PCI pass-through if you are not a brainlet and poor

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

This. What the fuck is wrong with dualboot you dickpimple.

Has this been done before on a laptop with a dedicated graphics card and and igpu?

Second stationary PC, what else? Gayms on your gayms machine, anything else on your Linux machine.

I don't know, but you can be the first one. Take pictures!