Another Mint + Thinkpad vote here. I'm a lifelong Windows user who has occasionally dabbled in Linux, and Mint is the first distro that I've stuck with enough to consider it my daily driver. I have it running on a used Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 with an AMD Ryzen 7 in it. I still have a separate Windows desktop for gaming and Adobe Lightroom, but the Thinkpad is my everyday couch PC now. Everything worked out of the box except for the infrared camera used for face unlock type stuff, and the fingerprint reader. I got the camera set up to use the Linux equivalent of Windows Hello, Howdy, and while it does work now it's not as fast and reliable as it was under Windows. I haven't even tried to set up the fingerprint reader yet. I'm very happy with how well everything works in general under Linux Mint.