>>81966412 (OP)It's way too hard sometimes
I tried mint on one older PC that had a dual boot SSD, and for some reason it just would not, no matter what I did, detect a wifi adaptor.
Then I tried Ubuntu which seemed to have an issue with the SSD and would not boot at all. Troubleshooted it down to the fact that Ubuntu wanted to, for whatever reason, boot from the HDD which I could not stop no matter what I did.
Linux is great for old laptops with open BIOS though, would recommend