I'm actually planning to switch in a year or two when I get a new PC (the fiasco that is Win 11 was the last straw for me, I am NEVER switching to that), but I was thinking of going Mint instead of Ubuntu, since it seems a little more geared towards ex-WIndows users.

Mint is good, and I used it on my path away from Windows. It's still based on Ubuntu and comes with Cinnamon out of the box. 👍