I too has been sticking with Linux Mint Cinnamon for years now. It just works. I was drawn to it because at one time I was a certified Microsoft tech and didn’t really like using the command line. I’m more of GUI kinda user. There was still a learning curve and I still occasionally learn something new.
Bottom line is I can leave it running for a month or more before it tells me I should reboot it and it doesn’t bug me to update all the time like my dual-boot Win10 drive does. Thankfully I don’t need to boot into that drive all that often to do some photo editing. That and other software is not available for Linux which I think is monumentally stupid.
I dual boot too, and have the best of both worlds. I have it set to auto boot to Linux first, as that is my main os for all online activity, and only boot to windows when I run games, or need to use photoshop or my other windows only digitsl painting programs. I still have windows 7, so I don’t use it online much, but if i should get a virus I have macrium reflect backup of,the entire drive, so I can revert to previous condition before the virus if need be (but if it ever happens, I’ll likely go to revert and get a message that the backup is corrupted nowing my luck lol)
Im,a gui user too. I’ve had to command line certain things, but with my forgetfulness, It would tske me forever now to remember how to if the problems cropped up again. I have had to write down many command line things because I never remember how to so it when I need to. I wish though I had gotten into computers at an earlier age a d ,earned how to command line more, but I didn’t, so it’s gui for me