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15 minutes and 2 months fixing Wine and countless hours dealing with compatibility issues when someone sends you a doc.
they're talking about a VM, not wine. if you have a powerful enough computer to spare some resources, and don't have a graphically-intensive application, a VM is probably a good choice if you like/need linux for most of your workflow!
What's the point in running all your major apps in a VM? You'll still have all the "problems" of Windows with the additional overhead of having two operating systems running...
Also virtualization is a pain not only for "graphically-intensive applications", anything that uses GPU acceleration won't perform that well, even the Windows UI itself. GPU passthrough is also a pain because it requires another GPU and even then you'll have to get the image back to your system in some way which will have a performance impact on framerate.
i'm not saying that you should use a VM if everything on your PC requires windows... only if one specific app you sometimes need doesn't work on linux!
as someone studying foreign languages for example, i know that if i want to do translation, i'll have to use windows for some specific proprietary cat software. but i don't spend my whole time in a cat software! i would also need to work with email, and some projects would require me to use a browser-based tao software, and in those cases, i'd much prefer being on linux to use things like a better japanese input, tiling window management if on a laptop, and generally, not having to deal with advertisments!
Okay that's fair.
Thank you