@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans use a reasonable distro like SuSE or Fedora and it's literally no worse (I would argue far easier) than setting up windows. While most of your windows apps will likely work, I would still start looking into moving towards actual linux/cross platform alternatives for the long run as every patch you risk them adding something reliant on specific windows11 features, there just can't be any guarantee they'll keep working.
@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans oh, and for the love of all that's holy stay away from the reddit linux community, they're "those" people who parrot the "nvidia evil, sell your card and buy ATI, delete xorg" etc, meanwhile themselves playing games dualbooting windows (or telling people to just buy a ps5 if they want to play games...) and only using linux as a toy. The advice you get there would be HORRIBLE for actually having a usable system and running all your software.