Awesome don't get frustrated sometimes the UI UX is not as flashy but what you lose there you gain in freedom and privacy. If you really need a specific windows program you could run it in a virtual machine with virtual box or QEMU, if you go QEMU, check out the quick emu project which can help: htt...

I haven't used Mint much, but I've converted a shit ton of Windows machines over to ElementaryOS and the folks I've done it for have been very pleased. https://elementary.io/