yeah mint is kind of weird that way: it takes almost 3x as long to start up as win10 did. i'll admit to not knowing much about Wine since i still have a win7 computer that i use regularly for everything but internet.
the only one i know really anything about is GrapheneOS, but you need a Google Pixel to run it. obvs it would be great to have a privacy-centric phone OS with user-revocable network access and no google features, i just don't know much about it. i'll do some more research on it.
redoing nav and fixing blog icons