Depends on your setup. If you use a 4k screen with fractional scaling in Gnome, Pycharm and all Jetbrain editors have blurry text and run under xwayland.

But vs code works fine, also zed and many others.

I would check out Pop OS instead of mint. But you can easily boot both of them from usb stick and look around and get a feeling before you choose.

The companies are doing it so their stock price will go up. Each couple of years there needs to be a new hype. Its not enough with Windows 2027. Big techs high evaluations are all based on future hype that will come at some point in the future (and it wont).

I moved to Plasma… And I still dont think those rounded buttons looks good in 2025.