Colleague switches from Windows and installs #Linux #MINT with #Cinnamon.
Only /home (separate partition) is encrypted, not the root partition (with caches, ...). I'd say that's unnecessarily insecure.
Swap partition is a joke: 16GB RAM and 2GB of swap partition -> no hibernate is possible OOTB.
Enabling hibernate via an additional swap file (and tedious manual effort) is possible but the UI doesn't show any option for using hibernate as user. Meanwhile this works: sudo systemctl hibernate -i
I'd say it's far from being a beginner-friendly choice for a linux distribution.
He's about to throw away Mint and try something else instead.
(My current recommendation would be Debian 13 Trixie with Gnome or Xubuntu although I'm no particular distro expert and at least (X)Ubuntu did the same swap size mistake.)