I put the soon-to-be ex on Linux Mint 17.2 so as not to have to deal with her complaints about Win x. No issues since. It all just works.
I use it on one of my older laptops and it’s great.
I thot you’d say that the soon-to-be would put OUT on her win-x!!!
I was handed an old C2D, 2GB laptop running Vista, and installed Linux (I went with Xubuntu rather than Mint, because it's supposedly the lightest full-featured distro). Performance is good with RDC, Citrix, and VNC, and the latest Firefox is supported in iCloud; all in all, a very capable thin-client laptop from hardware that would be painfully slow in any recent version of Windows. Basically, the equivalent of a pretty high-end Chromebook, but for free.
And then I booted to find that the screen had dimmed to about 20%. I went to Google expecting to find out which control panel pane the slider was in. Instead I found twenty different approaches to the problem, none consistent with each other, most for other *buntu variants, all involving the terminal and some involving recompiling the kernel. Turns out the only way (apparently) is with the brightness keys on the keyboard; they weren't very clearly marked on this particular laptop. The Dell Web site answered the question the Linux community couldn't.
I may try Mint to see if it's finally the Linux distro that we've been promised for the last 20 years, one that's locked down and has something remotely resembling a consistent user experience. More likely, I'll try Chrome OS next. I'm having fun with the project, and it's nice to get new life out of cast-off technology, but it's no real threat to my MacBook Pro.