Thank you so much for the responses. These responses are really great and I agree with them. Especially with learning things as a side effect of using and trying to achieve certain tasks that I need. The reason though that I wanted to run in in Virtual Machine rather than adding it to another partition in my hard drive and trying to use it as my main os is because I customised my system so much that I am certain I will be so incredibly slow on it that it will be somewhat unbearable. In OS X, I have hotkeys for everything, open app with hotkeys, search google and websites through an Alfred prompt (https://www.alfredapp.com). Speaking of it, are there any really good alternatives out there in Linux for it. I suppose you may not even need it but I just go really accustomed to it now and its array of cool things that you can do (http://www.packal.org). I have system wide vim bindings with Karabiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/) as well as remapped keys like caps lock as my esc key. I have a lot of applications that I use that simply do not exist in Linux, like one for task management (http://www.2doapp.com) or one for writing my journal (http://dayoneapp.com). I just really find letting go of my system quite hard, I spent so much time optimising it to my needs (http://i.imgur.com/1gKlfxe.jpg). However I am quite open to trying out new things and seeing what really cool things that exist out there.

I may try and do as you say and really get in it 'dirty' and make it work for me and learn a lot in the process. I also quite like the dark theme of this forum. I find it to be a great touch. :)