Continuing into a second week of sporadic but gradually increasing use of my new Linux laptop and I am just continually shocked by how staggeringly bad the experience is at every level. The new indignity is that the version of Audacity I installed from the snap store cannot play audio. This is not as bad as it could be because oddly in this case I didn't install Audacity to play audio, I installed it to visually inspect audio waveforms, but this is still pretty bad.
@mcc I know this isn't what you're interested in hearing, but that's basically the reason why I stick to Debian, X11 and a barebone window manager (awesomewm). It avoids most of the issues related to the #CADT model https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
that is sweeping Linux in an effort to “modernize” it (= make it more palatable to corporations without actually fixing the underlying issues, and creating more), at the cost of some friction which, for me, is WAY less effort than fighting the news mess.