Considering that NT kernel is a much better design, I'd rather get Linux Mint (with UI) on top of NT.
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Could you provide some link to read about this? First time I've heard about it.
My respect for NT grew tremendously after reading one of the early editions of Mark Russinovich and David Solomon's "Windows Internals". I haven't seen more recent editions but I'd suspect they just as informative.
The Wikipedia article on NT architecture is decent enough (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT), and some quick searching brought up this slide-deck from 2008 that's pretty good too: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~zwang/files/cop4610/Fall2016/windows....
I'm most impressed w/ the kernel object manager and the pluggable user-mode "personalities". I've always dreamed of an NT "distribution" that didn't have Win32 but, instead, shipped with the Interix (aka Service for Unix) POSIX personality.
For those who are interested, the next version of Windows Internals is available for pre-order from Amazon :)
https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-architecture-m...
Oh, and @EvanAnderson - you might want to take a look at the Windows Sybsystem for Linux (WSL) - which allows you to run unmodified ELF64 Linux binaries directly on Windows:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/06/02/lear...