I have Mint loaded on a HD, but my favorite is Fedora wkstn 40 now -- for basic use and a few music apps
My laptop has multiple personality syndrome.......
I have a few different Linux distros to mess around with, each on it's own HD. I never got CHIRP to see my cables
so I have to use Win7 to use a variety of programming utilities. It will run the latest version of CHIRP
so I have to settle for the 'legacy' version which still works for most part.