The fun I'm having is currently overwhelming.

Try with pure arch now!

install windows first, then ubuntu and use the installer, how is that complicated?

Agreed ^

Actually, I've done it so many times... May be confusing at first, but easy at 5+ time. The worst scenario for me was that I've screwed up booting of both Linux and windows. Just put windows usb to recover boot and then linux usb to install grub :)

did it many times ... where is the problem?

I keep nearly everything on some sort of hosting, ESPECIALLY my code. If a hard drive fails or I lose widows for any reason it really doesn't mean anything besides the time it takes to set it all back up

Try arch Linux

If you have windows installed, its really easy to dual boot with ubunth but if you have ubuntu and want to install windows its quite the pain...

If you install grub after Windows, it should find it and at it to the boot menu. If you install Windows after grub, you might need some tool. I am using VeraCrypt as it encrypts the partition and includes a nice boot manager that auto detects bootable partitions (boot flag) when you press escape at the password prompt.

contrary to popular belief, i had an easier time sticking windows on a seperate partitopn AFTER ubuntu was installed

Uuuh, Ubuntu does fix that automatically

The fun here is when you install Ubuntu first. Doesn't matter, reinstalled everything