Mr Red wrote: ...the learning curve and new apps and learning them...

Well, it depends what applications you use, obviously. On the 12-year-old laptop, which we use for financial stuff, we have Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, scanning, dropbox: all those work identically to Windows. The lightweight xfce desktop actually more like XP than Win 10 - it would take an XP user 10 minutes to get used to it.

But sure, if you need a Windows application, use Windows.