I’m pretty much that person who switches between Windows and Ubuntu based on what I need to get done. If I don’t feel like rebooting, I’ll either use native Windows binaries when they exist, like PHP ...
Linux Mint will be slowing down how often it releases its namesake distro. We'll still see the next distro not long after Ubuntu 26.04 appears. Mint will continue to support X11 and Wayland for now.