Been using linux for many years, Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Puppy, Suse and for the past several years Mint. I have installed mint on several friends lap tops that the local computer guru's told them were outdated and worthless. Since none of the friends played 3d computer games or managed large spread sheets Mint worked great for them. Main thing is to decide what you really use a computer for. I checked operations that really require a stable system use some form of Linux.
