I'd say Ether mining is the way.
Ethereum mining with a modern GPU is like owning 2x $60 Antminer U3s mining 24/7 without any horrible zombifying every two or so hours.  Though the wallet is a bitt iffy to set up, you don't really need it, personally I just deposit from my pool 100 Ether every day or so to Bittrex. (It works!) It's really your choice though.
EDIT: Just saw your mining post. Personally I just use the ethminer program outside of the command prompt, I don't think you'd trust a link but it's around the mining sector. It's a .exe and a .bat that you run like an instance of CGminer.