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The software will likely work, but keep in mind that you'll have to add VM startup time when you want to use the software. I have occasionally seen software behave strangely in a VM as well, so best to just try it.
Can you share the software you went to use? Maybe there's a good Linux alternative or someone knows how to get it working in wine.
VM startup time can be skipped by saving state instead of shutting it down every time.
I would say the worst issue using a VM is with programs that need the GPU (e.g. CAD softwares or games), and software with aggressive DRM.
Only for a type-2 (hosted) hypervisor. This isn't a issue in type-1 (bare-metal) hypervisor.
Sounds like they're using it on their desktop, so passthru is probably going to be a mess regardless of hypervisor type, since they probably can't do exclusive access to it.
I fucking hate GPU companies for always removing SR-IOV from their consumer cards
What do you mean by "isn't an issue"? You still need a dedicated GPU for the VM.
These are all paid programs that don't have viable alternatives and/or I actually need to use them.
A few off the top of my head:
I do my best to find alternatives to other software, and prefer to use self-hosted solutions, but the ones above aren't really easy to replace, so I'd rather just run them in a VM.
I've use VMs in windows to run Linux, so I'm aware of the performance hit and possible startup times (but I use snapshots for quick access). I'm not too concerned about that for any of these programs, since I'm only using them from time-to-time.
Have you checked these all on winehq? It would be nice for them to be reported with logs if they haven't already.
Garmin Express for example is on there with some discussion here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=40213
It might not help in the short term, but even just having logs for more broken programs could be useful for the wine project.