Had the same issue with a wifi card, every reboot it would re ask me or the wifi password. Solved it by installing kwallet and configuring it properly.
Very sad that Firefox does not provide an .ipa file of firefox without webkit. Jailbroken, trollstore and altstore users could benefit of extensions before apple allows sideloading.
You may be right if you are not as concerned about privacy and being able to not rely on the App Store for everything. I can install any app that is not in the App Store. Ex: new encryption laws come out like in the UK and all Matrix clients are removed from the App Store. I can still download them because I don’t rely on the App Store.
I wanted to switch to KDE, had broken packages problems on Mint as some required newer ones but Mint did not yet have them and the AUR was a massive gain.
Jailbreak your iPhone if you can or use AltStore or Trollstore is avalable on your device to sideload Spotify++ which allows you to have Spotify Premium for free, tho you can’t download songs sadly. Then, sign up for an account using an email from 10minutemail.net and you are done. Or just use VLC with downloaded songs.
I personally started on Linux Mint and after 6 months jumped to Artix. Mint is a very good base to learn and I recommend to just jump in and search everything you dont know how to do and eventually you will know enough to be comfortable using Mint.