Congrats! When I first installed Mint it was like being reminded of how computers are supposed to work.

I've been on it since December. Absolutely love it. Everything about it has been an improvement over the Windows experience, even things (like my OG Vive and VKB/STECS HOTAS) that I was sure were going to be a pain.

Nice, though cinnamon has its problems with gaming, especially dual monitor mouse capture and full screen stuff and such

If you have problems with this and dont mind wiping your /home (fedora installer [at least a month ago] absolutely hated every other partition type and arrangement except its own) I'd recommend fedora KDE or gnome, whatever suits you best

Even mutable fedora has great update processes with its windows like update envoirment

But again, if youre that fond of btrfs, use opensuse (but don't fill your drive before updating, at least with nvidia drivers it won't check if there's enough space to install and it will break your DE