I frigging love i3, but not a big fan of thinkpad and linux desktop combo. I ordered a surface pro 4 and planning to run i3 in a VM with my existing nixOS conf

I frigging love i3, but not a big fan of thinkpad and linux desktop combo. I ordered a surface pro 4 and planning to run i3 in a VM with my existing nixOS configuration. I wonder how this news will affect my workflow. I have emacs running as a systemd service and client emacs connecting to it, so it's quite a killer combo for development.