Sometimes the quickest way to get a Windows environment on a Linux PC is not dual-booting, not a full manual QEMU buildout, and not wrestling with a dozen storage and firmware settings. It is a lightweight helper called Quickemu, which automates the creation and launch of optimized virtual...
You can run a full copy of Windows inside a Docker container — not by emulating the Windows API or using Wine, but by packaging a real Windows installation inside a container that launches QEMU/KVM and exposes the desktop over VNC/RDP — and several open-source projects have already made that...