Thank you for your suggestion. I’ve had a look at virtualbox and boxes but the biggest problem for me is I don’t have a licence for windows, plus my laptop struggled when I tried ubuntu in virtualbox in Windows 11. It sounded like it was going to take off and got extremely hot. (it’s a surface laptop go 2, i5, 8gb. so not the most powerful pc by any means). I’ll look into bottles though so thank you. Thanks to other replies on here I’ve now installed OSCAR from the software centre, but I also used to use a writing app called Scrivener, so I’ll try that in bottles. 