I would keep the Mint on your SSD and make another partition / add another disk and dual boot with any distro you feel you’d like to test. Or use VM like Qemu. When I got frustrated on Ubuntu I did bare metal installs to my workstation but kept my laptop Ubuntu. It took few years to find suitable OS. And I am still open for new ones but at this point I think I’ll stay for a while.
You’ll learn the different ways of thinking behind the Linux OSes (or how the devs behind the OS think the system should run) when you test them. And you can always go back to square 1