So here I am, posting at home from the new machine. I have it mostly set up the way I want it: photos, music, GRAMPS genealogy are now installed — these all required moving database files, but the transfers went OK. The desktop is mostly the way I like it, and I’m actually using it right now to pay bills today (sigh).
I’m slowly finding out more about this laptop too. Most interestingly, it has no Ethernet port, no power port (you use one of the USB-C connections), and there is a microSD port rather than a regular one. I guess times change… but there are still two USB-A ports along with the two USB-C “thunderbolt” ports, so I guess things also stay the same.