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I used to feel that way but then I woke up and realized 99% of what I was doing was in a browser so I switched to ChromeOS and didn't miss a thing. Then from there I switched to macOS. I don't miss a single thing. In fact macOS attracts quality developers. Bugs are far and few between.
I Use ChromeOS now only I enable the Linux environment which I run my Lab in when testing and learning, and then remove the environment when finished with that session to reinsert the restrictions again. ChromeOS is very secure by default.
That was one of the things I learned very early on with Mint, to avoid Flatpaks if at all possible and to only install software packages from the official Mint repo. And not to download or install anything from the Internet/non-Linux software. Too much potential for trouble otherwise, same as how you have to watch what you download in Windows. The only things I added to Mint were the Stacer monitor, Strawberry music player and the Chromium browser as a backup browser. My system is pretty much bare-bones and I do not venture out of the Mint repo OS environment. I run this same Mint config on two laptops and am very happy with both, they work very well.
C.H.
Absolutely, keeping everything to minimum and installing from trusted sources is very smart not to mention compatibility and performance wise, better.