I know this doesn’t help but I think the file picker is by far the worst feature Linux has ever had. And our opinions are quite common among Linux users.

It isn’t actually a file manager. It is called a “file picker” and has been a reason to rant as long as I can remember, so close to a decade.

During the year with LMDE5 I haven’t faced any issues with it. I tried Debian 11 for a week and even an usable Rust-package (up-to-date) was pain to install. I’m not sure, but I claim that Mint Team updates some packages into the repo by themselves.

LMDE also includes flatpaks so they’re up-do-date anyway.

It’s very nice if you don’t have Nvidia gpu. LMDE6 might even offer better support for Nvidia since Debian 12 allowed non-free drivers.

I use LMDE5 and promise of it being faster/snappier than regular isn’t over estimated: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=374128

Do you have plans to go with LMDE6 when it’s released?

Is that picture low resolution or is the problem in my Jerboa for Android?

When you take Pop_OS! into account?