I use Mint and so does my wife.

Two laptops that Win11 doesn’t want to support, but we need them both and we don’t have the budget to replace them. No problems on mine, but the wife’s HP has some issues with closing the lid and I haven’t found a good solution to that yet.

Sleep doesn’t work because on wakeup the wifi and bluetooth are both dead; bluetooth doesn’t matter but the wifi’s needed for the internet and the only way to get it back up is to reboot the machine because it insists there’s a hardware failure and refuses to accept that there isn’t. I’ve even tried modprobe-ing the network stack but it has to be a full system restart (warm restart, not power cycle).

Hibernate threatens something nasty, can’t remember what offhand but I’m not even considering it.

I don’t want a lid shut to mean shutdown because shutting the lid shouldn’t mean losing work. So I’m left with the only remaining option that shutting the lid does nothing, and the LT stays on, but then if she puts something on top of the LT as she’s prone to do, some stuff can end up in a weird state, like taskbar icons following the mouse around even though they haven’t been clicked on, and there’s no way to stop them doing that without rebooting. I’m not sure how that happens; my hypothesis is that the keyboard and/or trackpad get activated, but no amount of me pressing on the lid in various places reproduces the problem.

Other than that she’s had no problem adapting to Linux Mint. Everything’s where she expects it. I’ve had to do some command-line jiggerypokery for various bits and bobs but a bit of DDG-ing finds that easily enough.