Much smaller footprint than Linux. If you’re running a server, it’s much less vulnerable to malicious exploits.

What DE?

Gulf Stream

And it’s based on Chromium which does the open web no favors.

Unless it relies on a GPU to function.

Yes, let’s make chat bots even more useless by censoring them even more!

Ope

Stop buying things

Yeah they’re running an LTS kernel. Debian 12 is on 6.1 when we’re on about 6.48. I’m not sure about Linux Mint, but I know it uses LTS too so it must be 6.1 or older. Not sure if upgrading the kernel would help you, but just throwing that out there.

LibreOffice Draw

I’d stop using the web if this happened everywhere. I do use a user agent switcher or Ungoogled Chromium in a pinch though.

I’d seriously consider if your task can be accomplished with any other software. Personally I find LibreOffice Draw to be a perfectly adequate Adobe Acrobat Pro replacement for most situations. I know everyone has a different workflow though.

Try installing the package noto-fonts-emoji

I’d be equally concerned for anyone who uses the NYT as their primary news source.

How is this different from

flatpak uninstall --unused

?