@Rustmilian classic Mint is basically Ubuntu without snap. Then there's Mint Debian edition which is built on Debian (sort of insurance if Ubuntu goes Red Hat way).
@cosmicrookie the intuitive solution to error 0x4f63e78 would be...? Because that's how Windows issues typically are: no explanation of what has failed, only an hex string
@bartolomeo if you want it to just work, you should consider installing Armbian. I ran Armbian for a couple of years on my Rock64 and it was very stable