I’ll give it a try this weekend

There are simple workarounds you can try to fix it, see for example https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/12994#issuecomment-3134995065

so far it's been so good! i think the only issue i've had with linux is that it will randomly freeze everything (usually if I try to load a tab in librewolf/chrome that's a chonky boi or if i'm in zoom) on my laptop and i have to hard reset and i can't figure out how to search for it because i really don't know what causes it

I'd post to the Linux community on Lemmy or the Linux Mint support forum and someone(s) will guide you. There's even a guide to help you gather information and ask effective questions. I'm a Linux newb so I'm not very helpful on the technical end, but let me know if I can assist.

At the time of myhardware upgrade it was only arch and nix that supported 6.14.

I've got mixed feelings about Fedora. I spent 10 years using a mix of Fedora, Red Hat, CEntOS, and Red Hawk at work so I'm very used to it.

However some of the decisions Red Hat the company have been making make me hesitant about it's future. It also makes me feel like I'm at work when I use it at home.

It's not a bad linux family at all and if I was setting up a production server CEntOS would probably be my choice.

It could be you're running out of RAM.

You could try typing free or free -h in a terminal to see how much RAM you're using. If you see swap as 0, then it means you don't have it set up or enabled.

I don't want to waste time explaining swap space if that's not your issue, but if it is then you can probably figure it out with some searching or come back for help once you've confirmed that RAM is the problem.

Wayland still in experimental mode?

Worth mentioning you are a okay not to update.

I just briefly went through what's in the update. It's mostly visuals and some minor integrations? Or am I missing something?

Its a point release, so that's to be expected.

They also updated to kernel 6.14 and updated mesa to 25.0.7, which means for people like me with a Radeon 9060 XT, it's no longer necessary to use a PPA for updated mesa.

oh thanks that does make sense since it happened on my laptop but not on my desktop; i only have 12gb of ram on the laptop and the swap was only 2gb so i upped it to 8gb but we'll see if that does anything if it happens again!

Have always wondered how badly it could bork my system if I tried to "turn" my beautiful Kubuntu install into a Linux Mint install.

Anyone has any advice or experience of doing it without butchering everything? And yes, I would like to stay on KDE.

But it's 2024

Mint has no KDE install which makes it a hazzle to setup and fragile to upgrade. You also wouldn't gain anything, because they are both ubuntu based systems. Not worth it imo, like a sidegrade.

You can transplant your desktop onto anything, the configuration is stored in .config and .local in your home folder. Bring those to another distribution with the same software (copy while you are not logged in, ie while in live cd or reuse the home partition without formatting) and it will look the same.