Which Linux?

[Agent_24]

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.

When I say stable, I mean a distro that does not push out updates that are not thoroughly tested. Debian and derivatives are usually fine in that regard. I have used Xubuntu for years and years and only ONCE did I get a bad update that caused major problems. As opposed to quite a few like that on Windows.

The only time I've had a big performance hit was when the video card drivers weren't working - because I'd upgraded and my kernel was out of date. Fixing that and updating the firmware package solved the issue.

I did encounter once an Asus board on which USB was horribly broken in Linux, you could get it working with a boot parameter, but it didn't work at the speed it was supposed to. Asus never bothered to update the BIOS to fix it. Not really Linux's fault as other boards with the same chipset worked fine.

An old IBM laptop required a boot parameter to get the keyboard working properly but otherwise had no issue.

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.

To be fair I don't use sharing very much anymore, but when I did have to set it up last time, it did require a bit of messing about and manually editing config files to get everything working. So no, not all distros have decent file sharing (with Windows) out of the box.

Tried Mint -- What a joke.

Tell us the punchline, then, because I don't know what's supposed to be so funny.

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.

Just as a fix for an issue on one version of Windows, or even MacOS, won't necessarily work on another version.
What's your point? Do you really expect all versions of Linux to work exactly the same and have the exact same fixes for the same problems?