I switched all our home PCs to Linux Mint a few years ago, as I was sick of the unreliability of MS Windows. Near weekly reinstalls of Windows pushed me over the edge. Suffice to say kids and Windows don't mix. Lol.
Since then I have only had to reinstall Linux once and that was a dream effort.
How?
The trick is when reinstalling, choose exactly the same partition where the existing (broken) Linux is, to install the new Linux.
The install process will complain that files exist and will be overwritten. That's what we want! The beautiful thing is you will end up with a working Linux AND by creating new users with the same names as the previous users, the previous users will have all the same files available to them. No mucking about with Windows GUIDs, hidden folders or other rubbish.
Windows can't do that and you'll end up with old user Home folders and new user Home folders. Then you need to try and work out what to move from old to new. This may not be so hard for yourself but trying to decide what another person wants moved and doesn't care about is a pain and a potential heartache.
Note: You will still need reinstall your applications in either operating system but at least under Linux your users don't lose irreplaceable personal data.
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