You could also use an OS that doesn't tend to have dodgy updates that brick your system, such as most Linux distro. Nor force you to update if you don't want to.
Funny how a large company like Microsoft can't figure out QA, but volunteer Linux distros with much less resources can.
(A lot of Windows specific software works in wine these days, Valve's investment into improving it for games have helped for applications too. Not everything, and if you are stuck with such software, yeah that sucks.)
It has gotten a lot better from what I can tell, though that is just based on what I see others struggle with (or not struggle with as may be the case).
I can't judge this directly (I'm in way too deep, running Arch etc), I first started using Linux seriously in 2004, stopped using Windows except for gaming by 2006, and touched it less and less over the years. I have not used Windows 11 at all.
I never managed to get Fusion 360 running reasonably on Linux, in the end I switched CAD software. It really needs some sort of reasonable OpenGL support (or maybe DirectX, I forget which it was). And it doesn't work under wine, it did at some point but then it stopped. Cloud connected software, so you can't just run an old version.
Maybe if you had a second GPU and forwarded it to the VM? Not willing to spend that extra money, and it would only work on my desktop, not my laptop.
Funny how a large company like Microsoft can't figure out QA, but volunteer Linux distros with much less resources can.
(A lot of Windows specific software works in wine these days, Valve's investment into improving it for games have helped for applications too. Not everything, and if you are stuck with such software, yeah that sucks.)