>>106485254
>Mint: packages from 2023-2024
>Zorin: packages from 2021-2022
Zorin is even more outdated than Mint. Probably half the shit people want won't work on it.
The only reason people use Zorin is because it looks like windows. But honestly it's looks peaked with Zorin10/Zorin11.

This is not to say that Mint is a good distro either. Anything that doesn't ship with KDE/GNOME is literally a niche or hobby distro.

>>106485605
LMDE is generally released 3 months after the latest Debian. So, it'll take another month or two before they release it.

>>106488567
There's probably a device or application waking up your PC.

>>106488830
Get a display which doesn't require you to use scaling.