I guess the issue is, that mint is not on wayland yet

Yeah, I figured as much. I tried to install Pop! Os before falling back onto mint when installation failed for some reason and I couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot it.

apps are as bad on adapting to zoom settings as they are on windows (it is bad there as well)

I never had an issue with this on Windows outside a few Games.

proto.db is your friend, but yea that is valid, some games only work using a proper window VM, at least

I was so far able to get all of them working in Wine but it's just a waste of my free time to do that for every game.

i do not like flatpak, because it does not see mounted ISOs per default (and you only have this issue because you decide to use flatpak for which there is no such thing on windows)

Everyone so far recommended flatpaks. Idk. Why is there more than one way to install them in the first place?

shit just works until it doesn’t (any OS)

Yes, except on windows it takes on average about a year for an issue to pop up. On Linux, I had issue before I finished installing the OS.