You do not need to choose a distro -> already defined as mint…

You don’t need to do a dual boot in order to test what works. Just use the stick to liveBoot into mint but don’t start the linux installer. In this way, you can test if the things you need do just work without changing anything on the windows HD/SS

But my question was about what isn’t just working, which was your argument prior for not using Linux and now it turned out, that you not seem to know, I guess