[TomGuy]

I am about to kick Linux [Mint 20.3]. Frustration: a recent kernal or system update seems to kill internet/wifi connections.

The problem has shown up in LinuxMint forums, but the ‘solutions’ either don’t work or are too technical for us novice users.

I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, but the next update fixed it.

I finally timelined back to the initial Mint 20.3 and that seemed to correct the problem. Now, I don’t know whether to try to keep the system updated or ignore future updates.

[ShadowAce]

That's interesting--I've not heard of that happening recently (in the last 10 years or so). I'm not denying your experience, I just do not use Mint, so I've not heard of it.

I run Pop!_OS on a System76 laptop. Pretty stable, and fast.

[umbagi]

I’ve met that problem with Mint 20.3 xfce. They broke it, fixed it, then broke it again. It seems to have been fixed again — my movie/TV server is working steadily again. Note, though, that this all took place over about 3-4 weeks, on a free OS. Not bad, IMHO. I knew they’d fix it, so I didn’t bother backing out of the updates.

The only way it affected me was that something was timing out and stopping playback. A PITA, to be sure, but they work hard on keeping Mint “just working.” I’m running it on a 2011 MBP i7, with 14GB of external HDDs, hardwired to the router because the box’s Wi-Fi is slower. It won’t run current MacOS, and Linux makes it a great box again.