Linux is boring. In a good way. It is so boring that each of my computers use different distros. I have Debian, Fedora, Mint, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Endeavour OS installed across 4 or 5 computers right now. Some of them still dual-booting Windows 10/11. Now each time I boot into Windows is fun. In a bad way.
“You should be comfortable”. Is that a common phrase of these people?
I don’t think that’s a good idea. Moreover, it would defeat the purpose of using Debian Stable as the base system and their magnificent team of kernel maintainers. If you want the HWE just use plain Linux Mint, if you need a current kernel, go with a rolling release distro, and if you need Debian, try Sid.
Sure, you still can customize the kernel, it’s just not the same default kernel for LMDE. Kernels move differently in Debian but you can always install something like the Liquorix kernel if you need the newest, and Ubuntu still uses the HWE model IIRC.
You can come back to pulseaudio and delete all your pipewire configs before upgrading.
I would expect all these changes get to LMDE except the kernel, which is based on Ubuntu.
And UNO is the avatar that they won’t allow to exist. Or their fake avatar.
You always start with Linux Mint. This is the way.
If the photo was taken by one “Fox Mulder”, yeah, you are done.