I've installed Debian GNU/Linux with KDE on pretty much every computer I've had since the late 1990's, and I've never found a platform that didn't 'do it justic

I've installed Debian GNU/Linux with KDE on pretty much every computer I've had since the late 1990's, and I've never found a platform that didn't 'do it justice'. VM's won't provide quite the same level of compositor 3D eye-candy, of course, but that's no surprise.