Visual Studio (not Code) does not run on Linux, a fact about which I am a little bit angry since Malware-Dev has not published his devkit for Space Engineers ingame scripts for anything else. I've heard that Photoshop works in Wine now although I've not had a chance to try it myself. Linux works for 99% of people nowadays, but I think it's safe to say just from this thread that you are not 99% of people.

I'd still suggest giving it a shot, though, if for no other reason than to see if you can. All else fails, as you say, you could run a VM. The tooling for that is pretty solid nowadays since for a while it was the only way to game on Linux, doubly so now that Nvidia drivers let you demonstrate the power of flex tape by sawing your GPU in half and give half to the virtual machine (it creates two virtual PCIe devices which appear to the Linux host to be entirely separate GPUs, each with a fixed portion of the available VRAM -- previously the only way to get 3D acceleration in a VM was to buy two graphics cards and give one to Windows). I've not had to do it in a while so it may have gotten better, but last I tried, it was a M A S S I V E pain in the backside to set up but after that it was smooth sailing.