It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, that’s true. But Ubuntu backports device drivers to older (LTS) kernel versions, so the performance/hardware support is often similar/the same as using a newer kernel.
I believe they call this backporting of device drivers the “hardware enablement stack”, but I may be misremembering.
PopOS uses this, but Mint I believe is a strange one. You can get a variant of Mint that enables the hardware enablement stack, but I don’t think it’s a feature of standard Mint.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
I remember when I started using Linux on my main machine I installed Mint. It was very unstable and had graphical issues even with the correct drivers installed. I switched to Manjaro and things worked great for a while. I have Mint installed on my mom’s laptop and she’s complaining about screen flickering. I’ve had it with maintaining Ubuntu based distros. I always have problems with them. I’m going to install CachyOS on her laptop. I’m the one who updates it anyway so she won’t know the difference. Maybe it’s just bad luck on my part. I never really had any problems with Debian for what it’s worth. Is there a reason why Ubuntu breaks between updates in weird ways? I don’t see this with Arch-based distros. Sorry, this is a lot. I just don’t understand Ubuntu really.