There was a one-time sign-out with this release due to an issue with logins, see if the issue is still occurring for you, if it is, it's likely a browser-side configuration issue.
The logout is normal, it's because there was an issue with the way logins worked before, that shouldn't happen on future releases, but that is to be expected this release.
Is it normal that opening comments now completely refreshes the page instead of automatically loading the page semi-dynamically? if I click the comments button on beehaw the whole page doesn't have to reload, and it's actually faster. This seems like an annoying regression, is there a technical advantage to this?
edit: on further analysis, it doesn't do a full page load when you go to your username > profile
or when you click on comments from the link, so, I think this is actually a bug.
Editing a pdf works perfectly, yes edge cases occur, but by definition they are not the norm, and edge cases would be resolved by more people using it anyway, and I can still easily recommend it for most people.
I think a lot of people have already learned some things about it when they try gimp, and then when gimp is completely different, it is rather unintuitive to them, but if you started with gimp, you don't have that problem
I face yearly hoops at most and I have supported many users, the vast majority of people have little to no trouble, and the cases you describe are either niche, one time setups, or bizarre things nearly nobody does.
I maintain that the vast majority of users will face fewer issues on linux than windows, these are all insanely edge cases.
You've been around tons guaranteed, unless you're in the arctic