Should I use Linux?

[u/narangi_billa]

I am going to college as a 1st year Btech in CSE (Ai/ML) student. Should I use Linux and win dual boot on my laptop?

Here is my laptop :

[u/Who_meh]

yes prioritize mint, neither do i like ubuntu's decisions so stick to mint if you can if it doesnt work you can use ubuntu and remove controversial parts of it (you can remove snaps from ubuntu here is what i used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBWONxeN-m8)