Finally managed to switch everything too. Was probably my 3rd serious try over the span of a decade.

Travel laptop to Mint was smooth so then decided to get ambitious and try Arch/Hyprland on Desktop. Was far easier than expected (cuda, audio, bt etc) and the fiddly parts were mostly because its Arch/Hyprland - fiddling is kinda what you sign up for with that combo

The only 2nd thoughts I'm having is that I kinda want to play the new battlefield and the anticheat makes that a no go on linux