<p>Dual boots have never felt right even back in the years you mentioned. Not sure what your current hardware is, are you building an X11 app? Do you need 64-binaries? I would look at other solutions such as your local hackerspace for a place to develop, running a Linux virtual machine in VirtualBox, a free amazon cloud instance, heck you could probably find a friend that could give you an account on his Linux system so you don't have to dual boot.</p>
<p>The private reply's before might have suggested one or all alternatives Many options these days.</p>
<p>Cheers...</p>