Cant it just play from FTP/smb/lfs/webDAV?
First of all, no, youre not a noob, the corrent Name for people who contradict their own statements in less than 2 minutes of reading their Text (first you say you run Debian, them you say you are running Mint, which are completely different distros), is A stupid dummy dummy dumb dumb. (Seriously, .ml mods, you either let me say the R word, or you insta block such braindead clumps of biomass)
Second, LMDE still has newer packaged than vanilla Debian, afaik
Third, did you not take a single look at debians Home page, before installing something you yourself call Debian? It literally States that it is a „Stable OS”.
Fourth, if you dont want to overwork your single braincell, just use flatpaks. They already have their own drivers in their Sandbox, so you should be fine.
By your logic no one can break locks because they can't see it. There are going to be people trying to break into everything even tho they don't have the source code.
9/10 people looking into your code are the ones using it for themselves, so fixing a bug for everyone is beneficial to them too.
Also, there are entire companies working and sponsoring these projects and paying people to find bugs because if someone finds out that curl has a problem, they are gonna have that too, so the only difference between something like vlc and adobe is that you don't have to suck their dick really.
There's also curl and others which are offering bug bounties, since they are way more cost efficient than paying someone full time.
I just don't understand why you would want even faster WiFi
Speed is not the only variable here, stability is too, and over the years, if anything, WiFi has become more unstable if anything, going from „I get internet outside my house” to „don't lean too much towards the wall in my bed, otherwise the 0,50 Mbit is gonna become even less”.
If you are willing to pay the extra for a compatible router + client, you might as well pay the 20€ for a land cable which is way more stable
For the most part its because most people who are in such Forums know way more about Linux than the Indian call center, and would much more like to think about real questions, such as actual comparisons between software and specific appliances.
The Questions you are asking had already been answered hundreds of times in other threads. There are whole megathreads about these Questions.
People have thrown hundreds of hours into writing Wiki pages so you can choose what distribution is for you based on literal essays, if not even longer, detailing the exact philosophy of every distribution, what it is for, what it isn't for, and what to expect from it.
Yet you choose to disregard those works from people, instead deciding to ask for yet another Tl;Dr, because you just can't be bothered to type your Question into searXng or Reddit or Kagi or even frickin' ChatGPT, which would all be able to answer it.
No, not even that. You can't even be bothered to do the bare minimum and offer actual information to the people trying to help you in their free time, making them have to painfully dig through your pile of horsecrap until they even understand what it is you want help with.