Maybe try another distro? Mint 22.1 works just fine right out of the box, and at this point Claude provides actual support better than scouring 3 forums in case you need small tweaks. Other than some proprietary fingerprint reader I never use, every machine I've used it on has been fine.
You can just do a live install from USB and test it before even installing.
Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member "I'm too old to learn a new operating system!" Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.
Came here to say "Well, maybe they're corrupting your data."
Mr. Internet, tear down these walls! (for all these walled gardens)
Return the internet to the wild. Let it run feral like dinosaurs on an island.
Let the grannies and idiots stick themselves in the reservations and asylums run by billionaires.
Let's all make Neocities pages about our hobbies and dirtiest, innermost thoughts. With gifs all over.
This is how the internet used to be, for the most part. There's no boatload of 27 JS and 15 CSS files to reference. There's no batch of 110mb splash SVGs to load so I scroll down past 3 words and see 7 stock images before getting 1 sentence of information. It's probably a 200kb site with a few 300kb images to load as well.
This is the work of an enlightened being.
OK, well what I'm trying to tell you is that unless you have some exotic hardware, Mint has the reputation of working right out of the box. Not great for gaming, so if that's a deal breaker, then that's it.