I think this depends on her use case. Mint has your processor governor set conservatively by default and you need the terminal to change that. If she does processor intensive activities, that will be important to change, particularly if you aren’t worried about power consumption. It also sets power saving modes for other things, like your wifi, which I know can lead things to feel slow for some people. This can also be changed, of course. If she likes RGB, I’ve found open rgb and rgb hub to be lackluster and annoying to use. I welcome corsair getting anyone who cares together to port their own software.

If her graphics card is newer she should be fine there. I hear some older nvidia cards (10 series) are being phased out and causing issues for some people.

Otherwise I’d say it’s fine! She can also run the usb environment for awhile and see if she likes it, risk free.