I live in Excel and PowerPoint, for games messing around with mods/config is fine, for work I cannot deal with random edge cases. PowerBI is Microsoft's visualization platform, I am actually not a big fan of it (for the area where I work, I could see it being fine in other cases), but this is not something that's going to change quickly.

There is indeed a version of Teams for Linux. I really need to get a new laptop and try dual boot, I am behind the times on desktop.

I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.

Good to know, I only buy 17" inch laptops (thinking of going 18", but the selection is a lot worse), so I might even be able to get one with dual SSDs.