I love Mint, been using it for a few yrs.  I sometimes experiment with other distros, but always come back to Mint.  (Because, no, I dont want something that even reminds me of Windows).  For browsers, my fav is Libre Wolf.  It's worked flawlessly for me, and its a fork of Firefox, i think, so very easy. Sometimes I play with Mullvad browser since i have a paid subscription to mullvad, so their browser is free for users.  Thats basically it for me.  I keep Brave in the background as a last resort.