Which Linux?

[Wainuitech]

If you stick with a stable distro it's very unlikely you would ever get such issues.

AND that's the key Finding one that's Stable on your hardware.  I have many Windows 10 PC's all run nicely on W10, But install Linux ( various Distros) and blimey you would think You were adding water to the petrol Tank  LOL.

Then theres Sharing over a network -- that's hit and miss as well. But on saying that actually managed to get kubuntu working reasonably well, file sharing and running.

Tried Mint -- What a joke.

One thing that's really annoying is WHEN there are problems trying to find fixes, the forums and sites differ so much, and even versions of the same distro, what works for one version won't work on another.

But one thing mentioned, yes you can try live USB's ( mostly these days) and see