Best VM for Zorin OS? (Dual Drive Dual Boot Setup)

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CONTEXT: Hello all! I am fairly new to Zorin/Linux. After bricking my PC 50 different ways over the last 2 weeks, I finally successfully set it up to dual drive dual boot (1 SSD with Windows, 1 SSD with Zorin 18).

I have some programming experience with Java. However, all of those files are saved on a Time Machine usb, and I got rid of my MacBook Air. I want to be able to plug that in and access/save those files and get an IDE setup along with MAMP. But from my understanding, I can’t just plug this into something that’s not running macOS.

So I’ve heard of VirtualBox and recently started reading a bit about QEMU KVM.

QUESTION: Based on this situation, does anyone have any recommendations as far as the VM? I also have an RTX 3060 with virtualization enabled but I’ve read that AMD can be better with running Linux?

Would appreciate any and all help, tips! Thank you!

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What you will read are lots of different opinions based on anecdotal experiences.

From observation; AMD seems to mesh better with GnuLinux (better support for graphics stacks and drivers) over-all, but AMD reserves its driver code as proprietary, as well, releasing only the basic non-proprietary code to GnuLinux.
AMD hardware can lack support on GnuLinux, not work or not fully work, too.

Nvidia is more complicated than AMD is. I also have Nvidia RTX 3060 and I have very few problems, but I do experience the "Complicatedness" of Nvidia.

If I were to make a recommendation as far as compatibility, functionality and expansiveness: QEMU.

f I were to make a recommendation as far as easy to use; Gnome Boxes. Very few settings and hard to troubleshoot, but it usually works and is very simple.

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