Re: Just install Linux (joking aside)
@Ken Hagan
based on your comment, you haven't got around to trying to put Linux on the host PC and Windows in the VM
As I said in my comment, installing Linux on the host PC was what I tried first.
...since your monitor appears to be so big...you might be interested in virtualising a second monitor on that VM
I'm using a laptop - there is no monitor.
That said, I fully accept that there are solutions to all the problems I've encountered, and that I should stop complaining and get on with solving them.