It is fortuitous that I looked at Free Republic just now as I have Rufus is completing a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu Studio 24.04.2 LTS that I am planning on installing alongside Windows 11 Pro tonight. I added a second drive to the computer and will be installing Ubuntu on that drive, because sometimes this helps alleviate some of the issues.
This is on a new AMD Ryzen 5 3500u mini-PC that I paid $119 for but have now added a few upgrades. It is more capable than I expected... it was going to be used as a server hooked to a RAID enclosure that would use less electricity than the larger computer that I currently am using. It uses very little power at idle. But it is capable enough that my plans have changed a bit for it.
I have had issues in the past with Windows or Linux breaking the dual boot in the past... so I am going to research this a little further before installing Ubuntu this evening... I may go the virtual machine route instead... except that the Ryzen’s capable integrated Vegas 8 GPU typically does not get used efficiently if at all in Hyper V virtual machines.
Hyper-V is pretty good, but it does have some functional limitations that are annoying. One I found was the inability to display the guest VM's desktop full-screen extended across 2 of my 3 monitors (one is the laptop, the other two are externals). It will do one, or all, but not "some". I suspect it's actually a limitation in the Hyper-V RDP interface to the VM.
Good luck tonight with your work. Sounds like fun! :-)