I switched about 3 years ago to - on a personal basis. The company is still stuck on the treadmill.
Have spent way to much time trying to get Microsoft junk to play nicely with each other. Spent ten plus hours trying to get my dads printer working for the older machines after he upgraded to Windows 7.
You like their latest sales point... ‘Well, everybody uses windows/office, so you should too’
At the law library, most of the machines in evidence were Apple. On the plus side of 90%
I have not used it much, but have you tried parallels instead of a partition?
I haven’t tried parallels, but that was on my brother’s recommendation. He though parallels was more resource intensive and the kind of work I am doing doesn’t involve bringing anything off my work computer. All my work data stays on the work computer with the system I am using to link up.