There’ a persistent Linux Mint USB boot setup that will take the software and your data to use on various machines.
One of many places to check it out:
https://www.fosslinux.com/60398/create-a-linux-mint-usb-drive-with-persistence.htm
I absolutely agree with Paladin2 and highly recommend his suggestion. See #5.
While Mint is based on Ubuntu, they have personally repaired a lot of issues for their superior Mint packages.