The biggest problem with wsl is that you have to have windows as well.

If you’re developing specifically for Windows, you’re going to need Windows somewhere in the process be it bare metal or vm. You will also have problems with Excel on Linux although you could try the online one.

As a complete newbie with those specs, I’d try Mint Xfce edition.

Flatpak kcm is the permissions control panel. link. With the n switch, you may have removed the dependencies, some of which look vital to me.

I’d managed to forget all about ndiswrapper until this very moment!