Not sure about wifi cameras, I have a mix of Trendnet and Hikivision POE, sitting on a Vlan with no internet access. For the software I use Blue Iris. Where I have a need for cameras I have only a Windows server and I have found this software to be the best for me.

Yeah I am in and out of it constantly.

I tried for a little while with VirtualBox on Ubuntu but just found it inconvenient.

Sometimes you want to play a specific game.

For me, it’s QuickBooks that requires windows. I use Linux everywhere except on the bookkeeping machines for my business.

I care about what’s being tracked on those machines for sure.