

What do you mean with Slider Interface? The Overview from GNOME? Maybe consider then KDE as it comes close to the base Windows UI.
Also nothing’s wrong or noobish with using Linux Mint.
I would suggest to have a USB Stick and have Ventoy installed on it, then put a ton of different Distributions (Fedora, Linux Mint Debian Edition, whatever,…) to check if everything (especially the Wifi Modem) works great.


You sure are.