In PowerPoint, you can just select everything, then right-click -> save as image, and it saves whatever you have selected rather than the whole slide. There doesn’t seem to be a way to do that in Impress, but I realised you could copy-paste into Gimp and that would copy the objects as an image, so I’ve been making memes that way.
Why not try Mint, then?
Yes. Mint is the distro I run on my personal laptop.