I've been using Mint since 2017, on various laptops, including my FW 13/Intel. It's easy to install, and easy to operate. Cinnamon is a very nice desktop environment. Pretty much any problem that you might face has an answer, and answers for Ubuntu or other Debian based distros usually also work for Mint. (Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint) Mint comes with Timeshift, which backs your system up frequently, so if anything breaks you can revert to a previous snapshot.
I've been using Mint since 2017, on various laptops, including my FW 13/Intel. It's easy to install, and easy to operate. Cinnamon is a very nice desktop environment. Pretty much any problem that you might face has an answer, and answers for Ubuntu or other Debian based distros usually also work for Mint. (Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint) Mint comes with Timeshift, which backs your system up frequently, so if anything breaks you can revert to a previous snapshot.