“or Linux compatible drivers.”
What Linux? When was the last time you tried? At some point it is advantageous to upgrade hardware that is obsolete so that Linux can and will support it. About every new printer sold is now supported supported by Linux. Holding on to obsolete hardware and being forced to stay with Windows because of that obsolete hardware is foolish.
As for apps, Of course they would be new to you and have a mild learning curve, but there is an alternative app for everything for windows now. MS games are the only hangup. While there are similar alternatives for Linux, they are not of course going to be the exact same. They can’t because of copyright, patent, and trademark. But some will run on Linux using Wine and “play on Linux” or get them at steam which have been ported for linux. I have had pretty fair luck doing this. Even running 32 bit Windows games on 64 bit Linux machines. Same with Apps...
It is a Xerox Phaser 6125 color laser.
Drivers exist for the 6120 and the 6130, but nothing — Linux or Windows10 — for the 6125.
I tried the ‘alternatives’ and ‘suggestions’ and they don’t work.
Not to demean your enthusiasm, but no, it is far more than a mild learning curve if you do more than just browsing and word processing and engage in much customization. You cannot even just right click on an program icon and find the location as in Windows... If you do not know why I would want to do this it may be because you do not engage in much customization.
" but there is an alternative app for everything for windows now. "
No, especially as comparable in functionality, unless you mean just those that come with Windows. If there was I might have switched to Linux, but there is presently no sense to it, for me. Show me an comparable alternative to AutoHotKey for one. Then there are the over 200 tweaks available in in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 for Windows 10 From the Windows club. Add to this Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker
Then there is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus) , and T-Clock Redux and Classic Shell, now called Open Shell (https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/archive/master.zip)
But Firefox and Libre Office are excellent programs that work in both systems.