I am actually looking for a sub $100USD laptop at the moment to get my feet wet(er).
I had tried Mint and Kubuntu as VMs on my Windows 10 machine, but after my internet card died, a professional told me his best guess was the VM fucked with Windows. He had to do a clean reinstall of Win10.
So hundreds of dollars later, (I also had some upgrades put in while they were digging around,) I don’t want to mess with Linux on my Windows PC anymore.