I work in windows and archlinux. I have to use windows for a few applications but I'm about 60% on linux. It would be nice to be 100%, but alas.

tom: you are free to use Vagrant and docker

Just googled https://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/

how does that work on a linux system? Do you still need a vm or can it work with the host machine's linux OS? (just random general questions)

Technically docker can’t work w/o linux kernel

Docker is built under linux kernel, cgroups and LXC