

They can crash more frequently.
Where are your stats for this.
and the reason mint stays on x11 has NOTHING to do with this
source?
stable distros have worse support out of the box because they use an older kernel version and the kernel ships the drivers.
At this point I don’t even know what that means because maybe you have some other weird definition to pull out of your ass. Give me that in 5th grader level.
So you don’t have stats you have anecdotal evidence.
It clearly requires a source because Cinnamon 6.0 has Wayland as an experimental support and Mint team has said they are planning to eventually move to Wayland.
For Gnome. You’ve been pretty much talking about KDE (unless you’re now magically going to do a 180 and start saying how Windows users would have a better time learning GNOME), which if you bothered to actually check what you’re saying would have noticed the
Clearly implying you should expect running into issues.
Somehow the things you say are straight-forward seem to be nothing but.
In theory. Except in practice we’re not talking about kernels that are 5+ years old. Latest Mint version is running on Ubuntu Noble which is using Kernel version 6.8 which supports all the latest CPU-s and GPU-s. Just because it’s not using the very latest kernel version doesn’t mean it’s not capable of supporting the latest hardware.