hmm, everything worked right out of box for me with mint- only thing i had to do was find the right nvidia drivers- but it was no big deal- my system is probably 6 years old now- not real old- I haven’t had to tweak anything really0- but then again I’m a very basic user- just use it for email, web, some photo work, and not much else really- peopel that are hard core comp users would likely have a much different experience I’m sure- and likely run into a number of htings they needed to tweak to get it to where they like it-
My out of the box issues were more advanced things like VPN connections, and IPA Automount issues. but nothing major. All easily fixed with minor tweaks. and again, I do not bash Windows, as Microsoft has taken major steps towards being a friend of open-source. Just a matter of using the right tool for the right job.