Nothing surprising here.

This is bullshit, when I had mint cinnamon my boot went from 1:30 to 20 seconds including login. My internet download speed went from max 80k to 3.5mb this is max on windows to average on mint. My programs opened twice as fast also. Mint is a drag racer for my PC compared to the vw rabbit of windows 10. Also saved 2 hrs every time an update occurs.

Anyone that wants to test this can and boot your PC to it. You'll probably have to screw around in the BIOS to turn on Legacy boot and turn off TPM. On some machines you can call up a boot menu by hitting the Esc or F9 keys. Every brand of PC is different, which sucks. Remember to undo any changes, in BIOS/UEFI, after testing Linux Mint live. Make sure that you run it live and don't install it by mistake, unless you really love the change. That's okay to do if you have a recent drive image that can be restored should you find out you can't live without the crusty code that is Windows 10.

I do this in our computer shop when pulling the drive is more work than booting to Linux to back up files or run a Windows virus scanner offline.