As a long term VMware Workstation user with a Linux host, to run Windows VMs, what is the alternative? This is for professional use.
I wouldn't look at virtualbox. It's a good product but oracle is just as bad a company as broadcom.
I must admit that the license was cheap, it worked, so I didn't took the time to explore alternatives. But for what I understood, my use case doesn't exist anymore. You cannot buy a single pro license anymore. So, the day I upgrade my system, I may be forced to switch to another solution.
One of my favourite alternatives is using Steam Remote Play, you get the low latency, works for games at the cost of much higher bandwidth. But for a home environment this is fine.
Depends on what you need exactly