@david_chisnall This is exactly what made my Linux transition smooth - ever since Windows 11 came out (a bit before, even), I've been making an effort to slowly switch my Windows-only apps for open source or at least Linux-compatible alternatives - RawTherapee replaced Adobe Lightroom, Davinci Resolve replaced Adobe Premiere, stuff like that.

So, when a few months ago Windows 11 pissd me off so much that I finally decided I was done with it, switching to Linux felt like a breeze - all my apps still worked, but the OS also worked.

It definitely was not seamless (I would describe the experience as seamful, in fact) - but not needing to replace all my applications at the same time made it 10x smoother