I'll keep these thoughts in mind for the future. I've yet to try Linux on a laptop in any capacity and some of those concerns are not anything I've had to give thought to. I do use a pair of UHD monitors but not noticed lack of scaling supposty but that could be because they are the same DPI or maybe I'm just so used to scaling issues in every other OS I've internalized them.

Ubuntu isn't bad by any means, Mint just feels more comfortable to me. I really should experiment with some other distros but as I said I don't turn on my computer to fuck with things that are working for me. Most of my experience with anything but Ubuntu and Mint is two decades ago.

I don't really get the whole Wayland vs X11 but I think I did try installing Wayland on Ubuntu once and it was... unfamiliar. I was troubleshooting an issue that turned out to be a bad ram stick and it left me with a negative impression of just about everything I tried because everything would crash so damn often (go figure), so I probably need to try that stuff again.

I did install /home to a separate partition to make distro hopping easier and then just... never did.