Same, I had a lot of performance issues with Mint, for some reason. It was using tons of memory, and then freeze crashing (it is an old laptop), no matter what I tried. I switched to Zorin, and now I do not have many issues, the memory consumption is a lot less even with fancy interface grapchics. I feel like Zorin also runs Windows-stuff a lot easier, with Mint I had complicated (for a beginner) wine issues from the start. It really boils down to, what ends up working for you, and your machine, in the end.