Once dispatched Framework stuff arrives in just a couple of days, in my experience (in the UK).

I really liked Surviving Mars, and that’ll probably run.

My understanding is Windows is a victim of its own success/monopoly in a way - it has to support so my ancient business applications and such a massively wide variety of hardware that it is a mess.

Not saying Microsoft do a good job, it’s just simpler when the requirements are narrower.

Flashing the BIOS worked immediately!

Ubuntu then…