My machine at home is a monster.  It has dual SSDs in a raid 0 config and a ton of ram.  It is basically a dream to code on.  I recently switched over to ubuntu since most of my development is shifting to ruby and I use a mac to...

This is a good idea, I know I lost a lot of hair when dealing with VB6 so it only makes sense that you could also use it for weight loss.  Truly Microsoft will never be able to kill it.