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If you want to get comfortable with it quickly using it on actual hardware will be much better.  Yes VMs are great, but you will rarely want to do much in them and there is always the performance overhead to deal with.

Agreed. Kali is for pen testing, not as a daily driver for surfing the web. If you actually need some of the tools from it, you can download those from the repos.

Linux works great for AMD cards with open sourced drivers which is baked into the kernel.