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I would love to drop Windows but Excel (need PowerQuery and PowerPivot) and to a lesser extent PowerPoint (as well as some other more niche business application are a must).
For games, I can probably manage with a mix of native/Proton/Wine and dual boot. For other hobbies, video editing specifically, I don't even know what application support is like.
Still without 100% Excel support, I can't really switch.
That being said, for the first time in my life I am going to stick it out with an older version of Windows. W11 doesn't seem to have any real benefits over W10.
If you really need microslop office, they do have web versions that will work on Linux.
However there are also plenty of FOSS alternatives that might have the required feature set.
Web versions of MS office are shit if you are an advanced user. You constantly hit edge cases or stuff that doesn't work.
While I have yet to try the spreadsheet application in LibreOffice, from what I've read it, it has major gaps relative to Excel and that's with relatively basic functionality, no idea if it has tools comparable to PowerQuery / PowerPivot.
I don't mind looking for solutions when it comes to games and hobby stuff, but work applications is one area where it all just needs to work, without me having to come up with workarounds.
You can also look into coding and automation. There are often better tools to use than Excel
Like vba! No, wait.