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.
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.
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.
Depends on what you need exactly