Well, it's been quite a week!
The KISS principal has given me a huge nudge.
Everything Linux was going well, so I decided that I might be able to give myself more options...
Dual boot the PC so I can get some time and productivity with my Logitech MX M3 mouse and KEYS keyboard on Win10, no Google, Firefox!
Things went wrong rather quickly.
Created a Win10 partition on my 1TB SSD and tried to install Win10.
I have no idea what happened but I finished up with a dead SSD, no Linux, no Win10.
After a frustrating couple of days trying to get a bootable SSD on to which I could migrate my laptops Win11 system,
I've surrendered!
So, a fresh install of Win10 on a new SSD, get all the Win10 updates installed, then run Windows Update Blocker!
Then put a SATA drive in the PC and install Linux Mint on that.
Tomorrow...