>> and yet they are stuck on Windows because CAD software is stuck on Windows I have supported CAD software in business environments that had Windows OS as a d

>> and yet they are stuck on Windows because CAD software is stuck on Windows I have supported CAD software in business environments that had Windows OS as a dependency. We still virtualized Windows and used PCI pass through. It really wasn't that hard to set up. All the Linux, some Unix (BSD) were managed with Salt States (way simpler than AD).