I've been wondering this as well. I've been wanting some of the 0.19 features, particularly the instance blocking, but with the bugs that have been cropping up I kind of just figured that the mods are waiting and seeing.
Honestly, if Mint has been working fine then I see no reason that you'd need to switch. If you're curious about trying out other distros, it could be worth using a program like Boxes to try out some VM's. Otherwise, I say you keep doing whatever works well for you.
Keep at it! It took me being ghosted a trillion times and having my heart broken after a second interview to finally find my current position. I believe in you. :)
As other have mentioned, setting up Timeshift + a firewall is a good start. I'm 99% sure that LM guides you through both of these processes on first boot, but it's a good thing to check on anyways. LM is pretty sanely put together out of the box, so I'd honestly just recommend you use it as-is and tweak things when/if you run into something that isn't doing it for you.
A lot. Also, thanks for the heads-up on Kagi. Anybody have recommendations for a privacy-respecting search engine that isn't run by chuds? Paid is fine as long as it doesn't suck.
Anxiety has been through the roof this past week. My weekend hasn't been too great either on account of a hole in my insulation causing my water to freeze on Friday. Hoping that it comes back tomorrow once temperatures start staying above freezing.
I've been using and loving the Intel AV1 support that got added with the latest update. Glad to see we're getting a VA-API implementation now.