I've installed Mint on many machines. Using the Mate desktop not Cinnamon as it is still buggy. I find its one of the few that I could just install and run. I replace caja with thunar and keep celluloid and don't use VLC and I'm good to go.
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Is it productive? When it works, yes.
It's unfortunate that linux distributions are so unpredictable. I can't in good faith say "just install [some distribution] and you'll be fine".
I've installed Mint on many machines. Using the Mate desktop not Cinnamon as it is still buggy. I find its one of the few that I could just install and run. I replace caja with thunar and keep celluloid and don't use VLC and I'm good to go.