Depends on the business really. For my last employer (~19,000 deployed PCs, lots of fussy mission critical legacy applications), 2 years would be cutting it extremely fine. For my current employer (~30 employees, nothing more complicated than standard office applications in use), you could do the upgrade in a week.
I imagine my current employer won’t be worrying about upgrading before 2025.
If you’re after something for digital art this probably isn’t it, but for note taking and basic handwriting it should be alright. They sell a specific active stylus themselves, so it can’t be too useless.
Wine doesn’t have any inherent overhead. It’s a native reimplementation of the Windows APIs (and not an emulator), so there’s no inherent overhead compared to Windows itself. It can be faster or it can be slower, but this has more to do with optimisation and implementation than anything inherent.
Four nice sturdy nails placed strategically, pointy end up, immediately behind each tyre. Be content to know that justice will come when the time is right.
If your want something that just works, Ubuntu is pretty hard to beat. Snaps are really not a big deal anymore, performance wise; a lot of the bad rap on slow startups etc. are from years (and many versions) ago.
If you don’t want Ubuntu and you don’t like Mint, there are also other options in the Ubuntu/Debian family. Pop_OS and Zorin are both popular.
If it’s something I think I’m going to reread, sure. If it’s something to complete a collection where I already own volumes, maybe.
I read a lot of books from my local library. But like all underfunded local libraries, the selection is rather hit and miss; there are quite a few examples of series where they don’t have the complete set. If I continue the series past what they have, I need to buy them. On a few occasions, I’ve gone back to buy the ones that I’ve already read just because it pains me to own a partial series.
But in general, I buy fewer books than I used to. Partly because money isn’t as free and easy as it used to be, partly because my house is already full of books and I can’t just keep buying them until I’m buried alive.