Sounds like you can install and run LFS
It's the biggest reason why I like Windows 7 and Linux. You can pretty do what you want, if you know how to do it. For instance:
1. when I install Linux Mint, I use 18.3 because I find it's the most stable and it can browse my Windows network easily. Yeah it's older, but the kernel can be updated if you know where to find it.
2. I will also uninstall the standard version of LibreOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, and I will install latest version of LibreOffice, the 102 version of Thunderbird and the latest versions of Palemoon, Slimjet and Brave. I will also install MasterPDF and the latest version of Gimp. That's it, that's all I need. I uninstall anything I don't need or want.
3. Windows 7 the same thing. W7, Office 2010 or 2016, Acrobat 10, Photoshop CS5, the same browsers as stated above and Thunderbird 102. However, I am finding that my browsers in W7 are losing their effectiveness because Chromium no longer supports W7 and all the Chromium browsers are increasingly not working since they won't update. However, since I tri-boot my computers with W7, W10 and Linux I can go back and forth between them and get what I need to do, done.
I'm a scraper when it comes to all things IT. I guess that's a big reason why the IT folks in the Air Force didn't like me. I drove them nuts! I gave my aircrews the best IT equipment I knew to get and THEY were happy. Base IT folks, not so much! LOL