[cdaringe]

Do it. It’s great. Excel is better than Calc, no doubt, at least with the native app. Online Excel I find has offensively poor performance. Calc gets the job done for mostly all common functionality. At this point, I do have a w10 install solely to play games—and really that’s the only reason. Id be delighted to purge that disk and get the SSD space back :). I’d recommend not getting too hung up on the perfect distro or desktop environment choice. Most big distros will let you swap DEs after the fact, but swapping historically does leave some cruft behind. I just stick to vanilla Ubuntu, despite experimenting with literally dozens of distros, DEs, window managers, kernels, etc over the last decade. At some point I got tired of over customization, and found that vanilla yields max simplicity. The gentleman above suggested kubuntu—sure, great choice. Don’t over think it—just try it and commit to it for minimally a few weeks before making a final judgement.