Cool, cool. Now quote us some child endangerment laws.

That's not flying, that's just falling with style.

So many questions. Starting with the most insignificant one: Why did they use a picture of her from the 90s ?

That's not how it works. Right now the situation is: it doesn't work. You claim it should be a workable situation. Show how it should work, don't ask people to prove a negative.

Israel's outline is sketchy to say the least...

And Rome to piss off the pastafarians (and Catholics some more too)

He surely won't mind if we shoot him into the outer part of "that in which he doesn't believe" then.

We had a little dig between the couch cushions, and look what we came up with!

A bit confusing to use the term "world view" as it has a different (more widely used) meaning than in the literal sense they're trying to use it here.

@OmnipotentEntity makes a good point. Most (and definitely older) laptops have 1 drive. Which would mean your C and D 'drives' are actually 2 partitions on 1 physical hard drive. This is fine, but you need to be extra cautious when installing Linux. Many linux installers push you to the easiest choice and select 'wipe whole disk and install linux', which in your case would possibly lead to inadvertently wiping the D partition too.

You might want to pay extra attention to this during the installation, when selecting which disk to use for installation. Make sure you only let the installer delete the C partition (which will probably not be named as such, so be ready to find another way to identify the correct partition (maybe by its size?)), and let the installer use the free space that gives to create linux partitions it needs there (next to the D partition).

NB: Still in Windows, you may also want to check whether or not your D drive is encrypted with Bitlocker, as that is a Windows-type encryption and cant be unlocked without a recovery key (aside from it not being practical to use Bitlocker encryption in combination with linux (or NTFS for that sake, as OmnipotentEntity also already mentioned)). If so, you might want to decrypt the D partition so you can still access it from Linux (while it is of course better to have encryption enabled, it may be a temporary convenience).

Edit: Solid choice of Linux Mint btw. It's been a while since I've used it, but in my memory (also as a starting Linux user) it made the right things easy. If your laptop is quite old, and Cinnamon (also solid) doesn't feel quite snappy enough, you could give XFCE a try. It's less polished (some say ugly 😆) out-of-the-box, but also less resource hungry (Cinnamon and XFCE are both Desktop Environments (DE's). On Linux you can have multiple DE's installed side-by-side; and then make a choice which DE you want to use when you login)

Isn't base64 purely encoding, not encryption?