I tried mint but it doesnt work on my display out of the box, ik you can always try tinkering but i’d love to switch to something that works no terminal needed. Im gonna give fedora budgie a try, anything else i should try? im interested in photo and video editing but i hate win 11.
Any distro would work. The thing that matters is the DE or the WM and its configuration. Anything with Gnome or KDE should work and be easy to set up. The new big thing is Cosmic by the devs of PopOS. It is also easy to get up and running.
As far as your issue with the drivers go you should first find what your network card is. Then look up or ask ChatGPT how to install drivers for X on Y distro.