I did that for a few weeks, then stopped because it&#x27;s so much hassle. Using a VM is very clunky, a lot of features don&#x27;t work as expected. There is the perpetual mouse lag, copy&#x2F;paste is very confusing (different hotkeys for the the host and VM), transferring content from the host to VM doesn&#x27;t always work, plus filesystem annoyances. It&#x27;s not something people want to deal with all the time.<p>Dual-booting was out of the question, because restarting the computer just to run Microsoft Word never made much sense to me.