Comment by sershe

I've just installed Mint on my travel laptop after windows update softbricked it, and then after a restore point recovery insisted on redownloading the update automatically on boot and re-bricking it right back.

Last time I tried Linux on desktop was Ubuntu 16 and it was all kinds of clunky, modifying text configs to make wifi work, random update services taking 100% CPU until I sudo-crippled them, etc.

On mint although everything... Just works. Including Steam and Spotify. It feels like a snappier, non-annoying version of Windows :)