Outside of North America, and I just switched an old laptop (backup school device for kids) and my secondary computer that couldn't be upgraded to windows 11 (so no longer receiving security updates) to Linux Mint in the past week. I'm a normie, and the process was simple even for me. Over the weekend we've tested a couple games on the secondary computer and while they didn't run as well, they ran. Doing some more gaming this morning under the guide of "testing" haha

So far everything has been easier than Windows, I was very impressed as last time I tried (I think 2015ish I tried Ubuntu?) it was not nearly this easy. Everything just worked: third party controllers, USB devices, etc all connected immediately. The only issue I ran into was the sound in one game cutting out randomly from time to time? Not sure why, didn't take time to diagnose.