Having a Windows virtual machine in Linux has a lot of utilities:
- If you’re testing Linux for the first time, it can help you “unhook yourself” from
Windows little by little. You know you have Windows there, and that placebo gives you
the necessary courage to test this little weird new world that is Linux.
- You’re a developer and you want to see how your apps or services work on Windows.
- You need to use one app that has no native Linux alternative and that you cannot run
with Wine.
- You need to use one app that is only available through
Windows app store.
It turns out getting it is way easier than what you imagine: