welcome to the fun side of computing :3

Yoooo, how you finding it? Freeing?

Congratulations! In my experience using it as a daily driver is a rewarding journey. Mint is a perfect choice for starting that journey.

I switched to Mint about 2 years ago just to try it out for a friend who wanted to switch from windows who wasn't very tech savvy. Once I got everything set up I realized I liked it pretty well, it played all the games I wanted to play, and it ran all the programs I wanted to run through wine so why was I using Windows?

I got a new computer and just migrated the hard drive on over, and this worked but it did create some problems and it ran slowly at times, so I did a clean install a few months ago. I decided to try out Ubuntu and really did not enjoy it at all. I had to redo so much of the UI to make it how I wanted it to be that I eventually just gave up and switched back to Mint, but the latest version this time. It's been great, very few problems and runs a lot better than the version I had that was running on my old laptop first. Hell, some gaming experiences are better through proton than they are on Windows native weirdly.