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This. Straight up this. Just fucking use Linux, it's ready for casual everyday use.
LOL it absolutely is not. Not even close.
Bro I actively challenge you to install Mint and have problems with it. It's nearly impossible. Worst case you'll need to wineskin some niche Windows-only game or program, but honestly even that isn't necessary all that often in my experience. You're going to have a no-stress install finished in a quarter the time that a windows install would be, and a robust OS that apes the windows environment to such a degree that average non-technical users won't have any idea they're even using Linux.
Barring some sort of hardware incompatibility that I haven't experienced personally, I've installed Mint on around a half dozen machines in the past several years and have yet to recieve a complaint from the end users. It just works.
Had some windows users loving the Cinnamon DE on Mint. They managed to get right into it straight away. Plus, on most Linux distros they come with easy to use package managers. And you can still get deb or rpm packages that can be used to install applications just like a windows installer exe.