[familyop]

"I own some very high-end CAD and CAM software tools that I rely upon very much."

That's one good reason for keeping a proprietary system. For *BSD and Linux, reasonably good free drafting is 2D with LibreCAD (or hoggish 3D packages with Wine). Good thing I only need 2D here.

[Utilizer]

I tend to prefer the 2D drafting software I am used to in the ‘doze environment set up under WINE, as that way I do not have to convert all the drawings I have already generated to the next version time and time again.

Looking at possibly running a VM soon although the instructions on how to do that are quite confusing thus far.

The high-end software, however, I must still run in XP. *sigh*