Recreational Placebos

I actually switched to Ubuntu full-time way back in 2006 when I went back to school (anthro major), specifically to help me focus when using my computer and not get distracted by playing video games. Of course, nowadays with wine and proton on steam, that might not be as effective. But it worked well for me, never experienced any issues with word docs opening in libre office (or rather open office back then) or vice versa. There was once or twice where I had to use a computer in the lab in the library to run some niche program or another for an assignment, but not a big deal.

I had to do that recently, ended up being easier to just temporarily change the password to something short on a pc, then change it back after.

I’d suggest checking out the official installation instructions linked at the top of the mint homepage. They’re pretty good.