Aussiemandeusthinking of trying linux,
RayspektLinux Mint (I'd recomment Debian edition, LMDE) is basically what you want to try out. I've set up a PC with it for my stepfather that hasn't used Linux at all and he's happy with it. It's designed to be as newbie-friendly as possible. You won't have more issues with it than you'll already have using Windows.
Then if you feel unsatisfied with anything about it, you can go looking for other linux distributions (distros) because you have a general idea what's happening.
You won't have more issues with it than you'll already have using Windows.
You absolutely will, and the ones you get will be harder to solve.
BUT it probably is quite usable for you overall. Just don't go into it expecting nothing but smooth sailing.
massive_bereavementIMO and maybe a wrong one, issues tend to happen for four reasons:
- incompatible hardware
- hardware failure
- update breaks everything
- I wanna do cool thing from the internet
I'll say that the second one is very rarely occurring in Mint, and I wouldn't say it's not happening in Windows.
The first one is in my experience the most common, though less frequent than it was some time ago.