I’ve been using mint for several years. I just downloaded and installed mint cinnamon 19.3 onto a two year old computer and I was impressed. It makes 18.3 seem clunky in comparison. It booted up in seconds, was fast and responsive, contains upgraded and necessary features. It is very polished. Now I need to learn how to make a dedicated /home partition so I can move my stuff over and get rid of the old os on my own computer.
I do wish making that separate partition was a chouce in gparted.
I forgot to mention that the 2 yr old pc had an amd processor. Mint used to struggle with amd devices and drivers, but 19.3 did not.
I did have to make quite a few changes in bios set up so that the os could utilize eufi, but as long as you know which changes need to be made under whay confitions, its good. There’s plenty of documentation to assist.
There are instructions on upgrading from 18.3 to 19.1. It worked for me as an in-place upgrade, without issue.
I then did the 19.1 to 19.2 upgrade and that went well.
I recently did the 19.3, too.