Most modern mid-range and upwards PCs are capable of running Windows as a Virtual Machine guest on a Linux box.
There’s also wine, but I prefer the virtual solution. It’s more intuitive.
Also, VMware and VirtualBox both offer “seamless” integrated desktops so that the windows guest doesn’t have to execute in its own window, but rather has its own taskbar on the host desktop, or a taskbar integrated with the host’s.
Your post proves number five. Every person I know would read that and say, “What? What is that guy talking about? Wanna head out for lunch?”
Or something like that. ;-)
To be fair to the author, I’m replacing the word “expert” with “hobbyist”. I went to a computer fair in Kent Washington back around 1997 with my nephew and before we went in I told him, “soak this up because it is like going to an auto fair before the introduction of the model T. Eventually this will go away as the computer becomes a commodity like the toaster.” It did and they have.
Most people don’t want to mess with it and your post talks over the heads of even many computer hobbyists that only do windows or Mac.