Platform differences with Windows 10

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Regarding Linux, I do use it for my mail server and databases, but quite a lot of software I use (particularly music creation stuff) is not available in a Linux port. Having spent a good deal of my working life on System 5 Unix, I'd be delighted if more vendors would take the trouble to support Linux.

If your music software will run in W7 or earlier, and perhaps even in W10, could you run it in a Windows VM under Linux using Virtualbox or other VM software? I do this for my older Xilinx FPGA software which needs XP - it's not happy with W7. Runs perfectly in a VM and because a modern PC is a lot faster than the PCs I used to run it on, the penalty for virtualisation is non-existent. It just runs quickly.

I have tried VB and dual-boot in the past, but have sometimes experienced problems with both, which required drastic action to rectify. No idea what caused the problems. I am quite happy with W10 for general PC work, once the nasty bits have been zapped!