And surely thank everyone who works on Mint too. I gave credit, but not thanks. Sorry.

I have Linux Mint, dual-booting on two machines both are primary boots, and full-time booting on three others.

[I appreciate Mint's desktop mantra and lead, and with Cinnamon helped the Linux desktop--when Gnome turned their backs on it. That stated, I appreciate the work of so many programmers who worked on many of the Gnome and GTK components and utilities that make Mint great. No, I am not going to thank the desktop lead for Gnome 3's GUI transgressions.]

My AMD 3900 desktop has the nordrand problem on boot; it cannot resume from sleep. This machine can render on CPU or GPU for 12 hours straight, so it's not the machine, and I guess it was never fixed. ref: https://www.phoronix.com/news/...
My LG Gram displays an error on boot, as well.

I've considered going back to Debian, perhaps with Cinnamon, but I worry that too much would not be current. That stated, where Mint has made progress, corporate factions shouldn't interject doubt that things are progressing too fast. There needs to be balance.

Just so we are on the same page, no one wants to be forced to set the time AM/PM with a encoded command string. Some people may want quite custom settings, but many more people would like to do something else with their time, whether it be displayed as 12 or 12 hours.

Also, if we have a numerical keypad on a desktop system, we probably want it on on boot. You would be surprised how many Linux distros are wrongly influenced by people who have not quite got it--that they aren't typing on a VT100 terminal.

Lastly, while notabug will always be a problem, one of the worst problems Linux has with reliability and software quality is: things get fixed in the forums--not in the code. There forum moderators verify bugs and find answers to bugs that should be fixed in code. I get it, you want be helpful and we appreciate it, but if there is a verified problem, the coders should know. I call it FIFNIC: Fixed in Forum Not In Code. The problem with this is that too many people like us have the same problem. With forum topics being locked earlier and earlier, people with longstanding bugs that could have been patched--have to start multiple threads. Then you get burned out. From our standpoint, program bugs are one thing, but with the number subsystems and layers of functionality that distributions encompass, it would be difficult to know what caused what because we don't know--we're just desktop users.
So, it might be helpful if there was in a distribution a simple bug reporting and passing system. I can be tough on Firefox about privacy, but their happy/sad face reporting system was brilliant. For a successful Linux desktop perhaps these could be collected, sorted, considered, and delivered. --when they could have just

Sorry for the cut-paste spelling non-correction. Sigh.

I remember when the $10 CD rose to $17--just before Napster hit. To many, Napster was problem solving.

Anyone who who was raised blue-collar knew this.

Put the OS on a separate volume, Flick a switch: No write, fullstop. Want to update the OS, you flick the switch back to update to disable the write protect. Secure boot aside from Trusted Computing Platform 2.0--is the reason why millions of good computers are going out in front of peoples' houses to be taken to a landfill.

Well, how long is it going to take for AI to fix its code--or is it that the software cannot even recognize the bugs?

Just image what would happen if people didn't use a 3,500lb car to go down the street to buy a gallon of milk, a box of cereal, and toilet paper.

Perhaps it's not about the primary chemical, but the secondary result.

It's interesting using a 2-meter Ham radio. They are tough, reliable, some submersible, and unlike cellphones--not theirs.Either you have something that collects all your data for it's AI and advertising needs--or you have something that you cannot control. I hate the world of our cellphones. I hate my cellphone.

I am rich. I own AI. I want an exclusive party to celebrate my product.

If you are rich, you can do anything.

I could not tell if it had a proper audio jack.

Firefox is just like Microsoft Windows: a struggle to keep some sense of privacy--against an overall current of privacy mitigation. Why not have the AI features off by default? Or better yet, why not have a separate, less bloated and bug-ridden version of Firefox--without AI?

If AI was owned by poor people--it would already have been been banned.