The transplant was a success! Cloned my old spinning hard disk drive onto an SSD.

@PatKirby I haven't used windows for several years, Linux saved me years ago and I never looked back.

@UnderLockDown

Actually considered Mint but I just bought a new computer (that wasn't compatible with W11, the TSM thing), and all that software I got like Photoshop and MS Office I paid for and grew accustomed to I'd have to give up. At the last minute MS offered me a year of free updates so I went with that.

@PatKirby Windows ate my bitcoin wallet (and everything else on my drive) during a forced update, I've had a healthy hatred for windows ever since. Linux has always felt more intuitive for me anyway, made the switch easy.