I finally bought a new SSD to replace my old HDD so I did a clean installation on a new drive. I did try out Mint by partitioning my old HDD and dual booted Win10 and Mint. I spent a few days finding linux alternatives to the programs I used on windows. Photoshop and Lightroom were replaced by Gimp and Darktable. By the time my SSD came in, I was prepared for the switch, and I started copying files over from Win10 to Mint by using SD cards. It was very useful to keep windows around so I could put the mint installer on a flash drive or SD card. It's a very fast install with a SSD. I then installed steam, downloaded a few games, and enable proton (allows you to install windows games) in steam. My only issue has been my cheap wifi usb adapter. It's an older tp link adapter and isn't very well supported. It's been causing some drops in wifi speeds and connection. I plan on getting a newer better wifi adapter or card.

This sub, /r/linuxquestions, and /r/linux4noobs were a huge help. There are lots of youtube videos to answer any questions. Lots of documentation and support. I'm a total linux noob. It takes a few good weeks of learning the basics and mint is very easy to use.