Why PIA? They’re manipulating people. Its owned by same company as express vpn, cyberghost and zenmate

Not to mention their terrible pricing policy

I’m doubtful on “stable” releases are more stable.

and I forgot to mention security.

DE written in javascript with memory leaks would be awesome experience, but yeah they implemented auto restart feature (instead of fixing the leaks).

Use anything but not Linux mint. You will face outdated software, memory leaks, slowness.