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Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10
(lifehacker.com)
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You can try to put the engineering programs in dedicated snapshotted windows VMs and basically time-capsule them as a working tool forever that never changes and works on any machine.
Your right but that would have massive performance issues. I could definitely do that and that is not a bad idea but I also have a steam deck now for most linux things I do but yes you are right.
GPU passthrough might help?