Ubuntu felt bloated to me, as well. I tried zorin but I found I had to jump through too many hoops to get things working. After that, I just went to a basic d

Ubuntu felt bloated to me, as well. I tried zorin but I found I had to jump through too many hoops to get things working. After that, I just went to a basic debian install. Been very nice, lean, minimal. And I'm already familiar with apt. I used debian for a time before ubuntu, as well. I haven't really had to do any tinkering besides bringing in my dotfiles and installing my environment. I didn't have any bluetooth, wifi, or display issues, on an HP machine or thinkpad (I migrated two machines). I haven't tried mint, so I'm not knocking it. But you might like debian, which ubuntu was based on.