Advice on moving to a new PC requested

I've done this before but not in several years, so I'd like some advice/suggestions on the best order to do things in.

My wife has a Dell XPS13 that's 4+ years old. It has been updated to Windows 11 Home. She has ordered a new XPS13 with Win 11 Pro. I want to make the new machine look and work as much like the old one as possible for her. Here's what I remember from the last times I did this with both her previous Dell and my previous Lenovo Thinkpad X1. I'm not sure I correctly remember the order I did these or if this is the best order.

1. On startup the first time, create a local login rather than a MS login. I have notes on how I was able to do this.
2. Check for and install Windows 11 updates
3. Disable Bitlocker if it is enabled.
4. Disable Onedrive. Maybe uninstall it completely?
5. Repartition the 1 TB SSD drive into a C: and D: partitions, each 500 Gb. (Her old machine is partitioned this way.) With a new machine that has mostly empty space on its drive, I can use Disk Manager from Control Panel. I also have Partition Master, which could move data but that isn't necessary.
6. Install or activate the MS Office Home product purchased with the Dell laptop. This is a newer version than what she has on the old Dell.

I think the above is what I did to prepare for transferring apps and data to the new laptop. Those are the main steps I'd like confirmation about. The following ones are pretty specific to Laplink PC Mover.

7. Download and activate Laplink PC Mover on the old machine. Activation will be via wifi.
8. Connect the two machines via the Laplink USB Thunderbolt cable. Both laptops have Thunderbolt ports.
8. Follow the Laplink procedures for installing and activating on the new laptop, maybe with a temporary ethernet connection to the router just for activation. After Laplink is running, I don't want the new machine connected to the internet until after all apps and data are transferred. I made the mistake of not doing this once and Laplink switched its tranferring to wifi, which was way slower than the direct cable connection.
9. Laplink does an amazing job of transferring apps and data to the new PC, almost as good as iPhones and Macs do. There will be tweaking of settings and some programs will need reactivation. The new desktop should look pretty much like the old one.