If only that were true. "Virtually any Windows application" is a fantasy I'm afraid, many important applications run poorly or not at all on Linux. Then there's the "particular attachment to the NT kernel" caused by driver support for $HARDWARE - there's tons of niche hardware that just can't be driven from Linux.
If you use a computer for actual industrial work, you will hit one of these problems very quickly.
> there's tons of niche hardware that just can't be driven from Linux.
Linux developers can often do wonders, but they still do not have a crystal ball. If that hardware is niche+closed+expensive I don't see how they can produce working drivers or software. Manufacturers not releasing documentation are the problem, not Linux, or BSD or any other non supported OS.
Games are the most reliable category of software, the one WINE targets the hardest. Almost every software I try that isn't a game, fails to work in some way.
The worst offenders are "industry standard" software. 3ds Max. Ableton. Photoshop. Altium. MS Office. Visual Studio. Go check WineDB and see how many versions of these are rated "Garbage".
I say again - if you attempt to rely on WINE to do real industrial work on Linux using Windows tools, you are virtually guaranteed to hit a showstopper somewhere almost immediately. It's just not viable.
If you use a computer for actual industrial work, you will hit one of these problems very quickly.