Gary, thanks for the useful advice and sorry for the tardy reply. The first night I tried the installation I had problems with booting the installation USB stick. So I got discouraged and other things occupied my mind until the other day. Once I got back to it, I pretty quickly solved the booting issue and then the installation was very straightforward. I've now got all the software I want installed, including Windows in a VM, and all data files copied - I've even imported my bookmarks.
And as you can see from the perfectly formed letters in this post, it all works beautifully
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