There is absolutely no issue with it.
But there are lots of other distros that add things to it which are great for desktop.
GUI tools for driver installation and kernel switching, snapshots, preinstalled Steam+Wine+Codecs+Flatpak, newer and more software, atomic updates, a faster package manager, more third party support, etc.

Debian is better than it ever was, but so are lots of other distros, especially the ones that build on it.
Nowadays you really have the choice between “good” and “better”.

People asking for distro recommendations usually ask for their desktop.

Debian is great, but it’s hardly ever the best choice for a desktop, at least not for the kind of people who ask for distro recommendations.

Yes. But more importantly, an external company to point to in case something goes wrong.

No, not with yours from lemmy.ml .

I went down this rabbit hole.
The only way I could make it work was using the alternative frontend for my instance: old.feddit.org
There, log in was possible without issues. But I don’t know if lemmy.ml has alternative frontends.

I had tried all CLI browsers, browsh, and Neon Modem Overdrive. (which seemed to work for people on other instances, but not on feddit.org . Edit: The issue I was having with it seems to be fixed now.)

Das derzeit verhandelte EU-Gesetz zur Chatkontrolle begründet die Maßnahme mit sexuellem Missbrauch von Kindern. Europol und Abgeordnete fordern eine Ausweitung auf andere Inhalte wie Pornografie und Drogen.

Ein deutsches Gesetz begründete Netz-Sperren mit strafbarer Kinderpornografie. Bundeskriminalamt und Abgeordnete forderten eine Ausweitung auf Killerspiele und Glücksspiele. Heute sperren deutsche Provider Webseiten vor allem wegen Urheberrecht und Jugendschutz.

Die Bundesregierung begründet die Vorratsdatenspeicherung vor allem mit Kinderpornografie. Tatsächlich werden diese Daten schon heute vor allem wegen mutmaßlicher Urheberrechtsverletzungen abgefragt.

Die alte Leier spielt ihr neuestes Lied.

In that case, you’re missing codecs.
For video players, they’d be called gstreamer-plugin, and for Firefox they may be missing in the distro repo’s version if it focusses on open source software.
The version from Flathub has them.

I always set the timeout to 0 in /etc/default/grub, that gets rid of the first screen.
And with plymouth installed, add “quiet splash” to the kernel parameters in the same file, that improves the rest (although it’s still not perfect).
Some distros have this set up out of the box. Ubuntu even compiled their own grub version to make booting look better (and Mint uses it too).

Mint ships an old kernel by default. But there’s a GUI that lets you install a newer one.
This would most likely fix your issue.
Or do you have an nVidia graphics card and didn’t install the proprietary driver?

For Linux to actually take over, UI/UX for everything without a single touch of CLI needs to be normalised. And everything just needs to work, be snappy/instant, and use established behavioural norms as basics.

I wish an OS like this existed.

I have a Thinkpad with integrated graphics I basically use as a launcher for Firefox and Steam.
Attached to a docking station with an external monitor connected via HDMI. Nothing fancy.
In several different distros, I can’t play my Steam games on Gnome with Wayland, because the game window won’t open properly.
It’s either bigger than the screen so I only see part of it, or smaller and windowed. A lot of the time it will just show a black screen inside the window.
Tried all available Proton versions, laptop lid open or closed, laptop monitor active or deactivated. Makes no difference.
It works fine on Xfce (X11), KDE 5 (X11) and Plasma (Wayland), so I’m not too bothered.
I’d prefer Gnome, though.

Other issues that don’t bother me much: I had to disable the fingerprint reader in BIOS to get rid of error message spam during boot, and the monitor configuration isn’t applied on the login screen so I have to type my password in blindly.

What bothers me more is that the laptop doesn’t receive an IP address from my DHCP server over WiFi, while my wife’s Windows PC and my phone do. But that’s more likely due to a misconfigured DHCP server than the OS.

I see you are an experienced Linux user.
Complaining that something doesn’t exist on Linux, instead of asking for advice in the title -
Triggers people who want to help and people who want to correct you.

Drag and drop is an absolute mess on Windows, too.
You’re copying data from a program and inserting it into a different program.
Depending on which programs those are, the data needs to be converted, or only a selection of the copied data needs to be inserted.
The destination program has to guess which parts you need, and the source program is written by someone else.

In your case, you add flatpak on top of this complication, which by design limits what a program can see and access.
And allowing it to see the network share you actually want it to access is too complicated for you.
So you want a program to guess that in this case it’s probably OK to read from the place you didn’t allow it, and give itself permission without asking?

This looks like a hardware issue.
I’d guess at overheating, or an error with the CPU’s energy management.
First thing I’d do is look if there’s a BIOS update available.
Then install lm-sensors (there’s also a GUI frontend called psensor and a gnome shell extension) to show CPU temperature, and check if they’re too high. If they aren’t, you could set your CPU to always use max power and see if that fixes it, but it will reduce battery life.
Or try a different distro from a live USB and see if that makes a difference.

Do you follow the step-by-step docs or just yolo it?

File a bug report with Debian’s maintainer of KDEConnect.
Running a stable distro means you get fewer unexpected new bugs, but it also means you’re stuck with bugs that were already fixed upstream for years, if they don’t affect enough of your distro’s users.

Could this be related to the fact that the closest Manjaro mirrors to you are in Iran, and currently down due to the Iranian government’s internet block?
And Fedora has pretty bad mirror selection in general.

What you could try: run sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syu on Manjaro, and set fastestmirror=true in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf on Fedora.

Yeah the 2 clipboards are a mess.
I actually once locked me out of ALL my accounts because of them.

The only downside of Linux is that it isn’t supported by some proprietary software people might need.
If you already use open source software, what’s the point in running Windows?

If for some reason you insist on using plain Debian but want newer packages on your private browsing-and-gaming desktop, regularly back up your data and run Debian Unstable.
Actually read what apt does on a dist-update, and if it wants to remove packages you need without installing replacements, abort and try again tomorrow.

On any important production system, regularly back up your data and run Stable. You lived without that shiny new feature yesterday, you’ll still survive without it today.