OK, after 2 days of messing around with Linux Mint next to working on a fresh Window 11 enterprise set up for our organisation, I can tell you that Linux Mint is more stable in its behaviour.
Whether or not my new Windows laptop wakes up from sleep when docked, is a seemingly random event: sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't and there's no way of knowing when it is one or the other.
Let's hope #UGent shifts to Linux really soon.