Replying to: Stéphane

it went quite smoothly
There’s a lot to say about this “quite”. :)
Before my laptop I had a tower, and friends told me “oh but wait, next version of such-and-such distro will be OK for you”. And then I changed my tower, linux wouldn’t do the trick, and they went “oh but wait” and so on and so forth.
So: my laptop works quite smoothly with Ubuntu. If I want my CPU to run at 100% all the time and my screen to be turned to full-light all the time. Battery time: 20 minutes. Yay.
“Later” is my new migration date. As in “oh no, not again”. ;)
(And of course I’m not just doing office (...)