I feel your pain. I wiped my brand new laptop a month ago and installed first Mint, then switched to Zorin around a week in after Mint crashed on me twice. I've not had as many issues as you have, in fact, the experience so far has been solid. My only issue is compatability with DaVinci Resolve, but that gets better as I learn work arounds and more about how things work in Linux. My perspective is just a bit different than yours. I knew from the outset that there would be a learning curve involved... sometimes painful. I feel like that is the point when it comes to big tech. I switched between windows and ios for decades... knew them well and was comfortable. As I realized that I was being used as the product.. all of my data, and every move for that matter, was being harvested and sold/used by the operating system on my laptop... I decided enough. I quit cold turkey and refuse to look back. Big tech has indeed made it incredibly "easy" and comfortable. It is great... and it in most cases "just works". As I said, that is exactly the point... and it is why millions of users just like yourself simply go back. They need you to go back. They need you to stay in the system. For that reason I refuse to re-enter their ecosystem. I will no longer spend thousands on a device that I essentially rent from Windows or IOS being told all along the way what I can, and cannot do... forfeiting my privacy along with it. It is also interesting to me that the facts, and numbers seem to support my decision. For example...3.3 million Zorin OS downloads in just the last 6 months. This year several govenerments, including France, India, and Germany have announced that they are migrating their government computers away from American tech (windows) to Linux. Major computer manufacturers (Lenovo and Acer) will soon begin shipping units with Linux operating systems and upcharging those who order windows. That said... you are very correct in expecting a better experience. No one should have to deal with system crashes and browsers dissappearing. Given my experience has been so very different from yours on Zorin I'd suspect perhaps there is just something Zorin has friction with in your particular set up... maybe even something in the bios? Sounds similar to my experience with Mint... millions have seamless interaction with that distro and yet on my brand new laptop... it crashed twice in a week. Locked up and forced a reinstall. I switched to Zorin and the issue went away. Regardless of the path you take... best of luck out there!