If you're looking to avoid Windows 11, I suggest the newest version of Ubuntu. I just loaded it on my personal device, a Lenovo IdeaPad from 2020 that came with Win10 installed. The Lenovo was a pandemic purchase in May 2020. My personal device was an old laptop running Linux at the time. My work office machine was a Windows desktop and I didn't have space for it at home. I needed Windows for work in 2020. I don't need it now. Yay. I still use my personal computer a lot for work, and because my employer is bought into Microsoft hook-line-and-sinker I avoided using Linux for work although I use it a lot other places and have taught my kids to use it.
In the last few years the movement of Microsoft services to the web, plus availability of the Edge browser on Linux, is a game changer for me. I can now do my work on Edge for proprietary web app experiences when Microsoft utilities are unavoidable. There is also a Microsoft Teams clone which uses the web version of Teams and focuses only on Teams behaviors.
Frankly, everything for work seems to run faster than on my brand new Dell laptop running Windows 11 at my office. That's a pretty sad statement about Windows.
I should have made this change a year ago.
