Checkout Bluefin (or Bazzite if you’re more into games). They do a pretty good work at making you not need to know anything about Linux to use it well.

Unless you happen to need some uncommon driver or software, you can “just use” it.

I ditched my laptop for a steam deck. I use a desktop at home and whenever I need to go to the office I just bring the deck and some peripherals.

Repeating tasks is a trivial thing on windows too, at least since xp - though I wouldn’t doubt this sort of thing might require a professional edition.