I've been #LinuxCurious for a long time. Meta banning talk of it really got my attention. That plus all of the Fedi chatter from Linux nerds [he typed with admiration] and Microsoft finding new ways to suck really solidified my intent to experiment.
Well. Mint has been my mostly daily driver for a week. It hasn't been perfect. But better than expected. The one HUGE annoyance was self-inflicted (gah!) can't fault it for that.
I am not out of the woods yet, still a few more things to test out, but so far all of my use cases have been met. Yay!