There are a lot of practical reasons to set up an OS like Windows 10 in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. If you have to deal with files you can't trust, need to test multiple OS ...

The latest version of VMware Workstation Player includes the features needed to install Windows 11 as a virtual machine. VirtualBox can handle automatic updates, but it's not enabled out of the box.

Windows 10 support is ending, and I'm planning my move from Windows to Linux on both laptop and desktop. The biggest hurdle for me is the usual: software that doesn't have Linux equivalents. It's not ...