It’s become easier

Which distro?

Once your settled in, give i3wm a look. Makes the mouse useless 🤣 You can get into some pretty amazing work flows!

Welcome

Welcome to the family

Excel is my big anchor to keeping a windows machine around. You need the windows version to do things like powerpivot. Main system though has been Slackware for 8 years or so and various Linuxen since 2000 for the most part.

I saw that you went with Linux Mint, and that is a freaking fantastic choice. I've been using Linux since 2011 and I tried a bunch of different distributions. And what do I end up on? Linux Mint.

I installed Mint yesterday myself. Ran Linux as my primary OS from 2001 to 202O. Glad to be back.