Having tried every major and some minor Linux distros, that is what i have found. I have Xubuntu installed on an old laptop (dual with XP) , which distro i found to be the best for old HW, as other distros failed on wifi. And I installed Debian recently (instead of Mint this time) on a another HD. Rather than messing with my window partitions, i unplug that HD and connect another via a cheap sata USB adapter cable (and use the PC power supply) and install Linux on that. Then i shut down and also plug in the Windows drive and tap F12 (may differ on other PCs) to get a boot options screen, and boot from Windows.
By so doing i can easily save docs in my Windows drive, as well as Firefox profiles and LibreOffice (i still like Apache better). And Wine works to run BPBible, which is critical for me.
But despite the hype of some, Linux invariably has problems (often with a myriad of solutions proffered) and or fails to provide certain customization one can easily get with Windows.
Full or any functionality with printers and wifi can be buggy, and getting permissions over your own files, even if temporarily, can require opening up a terminal to learning what to code, while (depending on the Distor) things like simply right clicking on an icon and finding the source, and making a shortcut can be missing. I spent a lot of time on forums to no avail trying to find a way to remap the CapsLock key to ctrl+c, and Esc to ctrl+v, as that really helps me is my stiff arthritic fingers, and which AutoHotKey easily enables via adding to a script (CapsLock::^c Esc::^v mbutton::^x) . AutoKey simply is not on the same level. But which is why I am using Debian, as I found I can at least change the first two.
Then there is the lack of legal multimedia codecs (US) unless you buy them. Yet Windows is also messing with that model.
Posted under my W/10 (free upgrade), which with easy customization (such as classic shell is like W/7 but better. Thank God.
Re: Evolution. I used that for a long time when I needed the ability to connect to exchange (ugh). Do they have a GPG plugin for Evolution these days?