I keep work files not on my local machines, but on my Samba-powered Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices and local and remote Nextcloud servers.
Sure, as a result, you see generic icons before the thumbnails, but the improvement boost is remarkable. It does this prioritizing content and navigation over displaying thumbnails. In particular, I was impressed by how Nemo, Mint's file manager, was much faster. This included a kernel update, which meant I had to reboot the system. Once up, even though Linux Mint 20's brand-spanking new, I found I had 39 updates to make. The entire process, from beginning to end took about half-an-hour. That done, I set the XPS 13's firmware to boot from the USB stick and installed 20, reset it to boot from the SSD and I was on my way. I did this by downloading the Mint 20's 2GB ISO image and then burning it to a USB stick. Then, I installed Linux Mint 20 on it with the Cinnamon 4.6 desktop. First, I installed Linux Mint 19.3 on it so I could get an idea of how well Mint 20 compares to its immediate ancestor.