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I resisted getting 10, and finally acquiesced. When 11 was announced, I watched apprehensively from the side-lines, and finally decided it was time to dump Windows if I could. Fortunately, Linux is here, it's great, and it just works, now.
An OS should do its job and disappear behind the programs (I'm purposely resisting saying "app" in favor of the old-school "program", too). Linux does that, like Windows used to.
I do admit that I run Win10 IOT in VirtualBox for a few small programs that won't run under Wine. Once a week, for a few minutes. I'm sorry. I don't wear the shirt, because I feel like a fraud. Please forgive me.
You tried the usual tools, found they were insufficient, and subsequently made a workaround for your needs. That last bit alone is more enough. Most people stop at "It didn't work" and give up saying computers are too hard.
I always say, if your problem looks like a nail and can be held like one, don't force yourself to use a frozen chicken breast. Grab the hammer.
Dude, virtualize all the things! In open source land, you run whatever code you want to because you can, and you don't feel embarrassed about it.
First of all, don't feel bad about it. That said if you want to improve yourself in the virtualization department and get rid of Oracle's VirtualBox, I recommend having a look at virt-manager with KVM/Qemu as a VM host. It's a bit more of initial setup but once this is done it works pretty much the same way as VirtualBox.
An application is for end user, a program is a set of instructions. All apps are programs but not all programs are apps ;)
I work in an ad agency and I have to use it, too, sometimes. Mainly for Adobe XD and Illustrator. I export their shitty proprietary formats to PDF and SVG, shut down the VM and continue working with native Linux tools.