As I caught: in short, you are about an open source distribution based on Linux, which supports any app from a proprietary ecosystem protected by laws from such attempts.
As of my understanding, you are solving a task that does not make sense, leading to a problem. Long story short: laws protect intellectual property in such a way that there is no common sense in creating a distro like the one you are asking about.
Microsoft creates fast and cheap, often badly written (see it at your work, ask your admins at your job), solutions. With more than 50-60+% of Linux in their cloud, these solutions are developed and protected by laws in such a way that they can be sold but cannot be split into components and used for free by other competitors.
The open source community creates Linux and applications not as ready-to-go solutions for sale, but as a set of building blocks ready to be arranged into a solution by an end-user.
Over this, you have the intellectual property discussion and corresponding laws. This lands you in a problem: your personal needs are not interesting to developers and have been abandoned (innovative software is sold better than ideas from the past). At the same time, your usage of apps or compatibility software created by third parties (using "Linux") is partially blocked by laws.
If you get kicked by MS innovations, you can buy a Tuxedo laptop (it allows an amount of RAM and storage that is prevented on the rest of well-known brands, at a price lower than one well-known laptop brand with a BSD-like OS), set up virtual machines (see Libvirt GUI or even Virtualbox) in Linux, install the well-known old 32-bit versions of the OS specially created for your desired set of applications.
That way, you will have a Linux hypervisor with integration of your desired applications in their native ecosystem inside virtual machines (VM). Networking, copy-paste, and so on between the hypervisor and VMs and Internet will work on nearly any Linux distro with a graphical desktop environment.
This is how that problem is solved effectively in the modern world.
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