My first distro was debian and why I switched was that I wanted up to date packages.

I would suggest Arch with KDE plasma, I don’t have a stylus so can’t vouch for it personally but I’ve seen it mentioned in the update notes alot.

That was a huge rant, i also don’t like the microsoft authenticator so guess what i don’t use it, and the issue of your private keys to getting stolen if your pc is hacked has long been solved with password protected keys.

All of these issues pretty much amount to nothing, the standard works and is more secure then passwords, same reason as to why enabling password login on SSH is not recommended.

I’ve used waypipe and it worked in my testing.

I’ve used a pinephone pro with arch and postmarket.

It works, but you really have to love linux to use it as a daily driver.

My banking app (bunq) worked using way droid.

I don’t use mint so this might be blatantly incorrect but after a bit of searching on mint’s release schedule I would assume gimp 3.0 will arrive with the 22.2 or 22.3 version. With 22.2 expected at middle 2025 and 22.3 at start 2026.