Linux Mint is the service pack to fix those niggling Windows problems.
I installed a brand-new disk in an old (c. 2006, originally WinXP) PC, loaded Ubuntu on it ... old beast has a very new lease on life. LibreOffice, RhythmBox, Firefox, and other software work very nicely for me ... and I have my beloved “bash” (from my Sun & SGI days, aeons ago) back.
I have tried every major Linux distro, and use xbuntu (the best one i found for older HW) on a laptop, but in Mint (as well) things like being able to even find locations via right click>properties was not there, while getting permissions to make changes to required searching what code to run in a terminal (and malware has not been a real problem in 15 years with Windows, thank God), while configuring a printer took even more work, while lacking equivalents to Windows apps like AutoHotKey.
Plus many multimedia codecs are not legal in the US without a license (MS now charges extra), thus the rise of Fluendo .
I think the Linux forums abound with far more issues with varied "try this" answers (like 2 days ago, when the audio stopped working on my xbuntu after a software update) that require a time consuming learning code, in proportion to the number of Windows users. And i say this as one who wants a better OS.