While I agree with your assertion in theory, I cannot agree that windows doesn't mess with grub. I have had 5 different issues with grub being overwritten, 1 was because windows and Linux were on the same drive, but the other 4 was simply because I launched windows through grub.
My advice for people dual booting is to never launch windows through grub and instead change your boot order in bios, this has made all of my boot related issues go away.
So much for space being untouched by capitalism.
I second this, endeavor is for all intents and purposes exactly arch with some extra branding, but what I really like about it is that their community forums are great, so if I run into a problem I can ask in endeavor forums, and if they don't have a solution I can ask the tech gurus on the arch wiki as well.
I wouldn't say so, for most people what you have done is good enough. However there may come a time where you have to do something janky, at that point you'll probably wish you were on a different distro, but for 95% of people, they will never run into any issues with mint.
Thank you, I was aware of this, but I believe you are mistaken in your last sentence because Linux has always been the second one to be installed for me and the issue still crops up when I forget to heed my own advice