If you are not a gamer or addicted to windows programs I think LINUX actually makes better use of most hardware. GPU (video cards) can be a problem for reason of their lack of GUI support and proprietary drivers that will install as part of the LINUX kernel. I had some problem with Debian but with Mint or Ubuntu none really.
LINUX runs considerably faster than windows also
ext4 v. NTFS
Linux 4.7 - EXT4 Vs. F2FS Vs. Btrfs Vs. XFS Vs. NTFS Benchmarks - OpenBenchmarking.org