Mint was my first distro. My interest begun with LibreOffice, then W10 got unusable for me and rest is history.

I distrohopped a year ago but returned to Mint

Please don’t use it in eastern countries. As someone who lives in country that had “them” for 40 years and more than 20 of those was occupied I take this term more like a insult.

I use mint and it is great choice, I am not so techy and it just works on this machine.

I have similar machine, but I run Linux, and don’t have these problems. Not exactly configured just some profiles for different use cases.

It was eye-opening how it got faster and snappier after getting rid of windows. Most apps don’t need tinkering, just installing from repo for me.