🥳 glad to help!

Try going to the settings for the specific feed and toggle on “fetch full articles by default.” I tried turning that off on mine and I got the same thing that your describing. Turned it back on and back to business as usual.

Hmm, I’m subscribed to their RSS feed and I get full articles out of each post 🤷 I use Feeder in case that’s helpful for context.

I don’t know man, those are some strange behaviors. Can’t say I’ve experienced any of them. There does seem to be a common theme of slow and delayed responses, that is almost certainly a hardware issue from my experience, but that doesn’t line up with the specs you mention.

Regarding the privilege issues, running a general user without superuser privileges is a standard practice for Linux. You can change your user to a superuser though, there are plenty of walkthroughs available to accomplish that. That will keep you from having to run sudo, doas or enter your password as often. Some things will always require a passcode though, as that’s just what the best practices of the tech landscape indicate.

I second LinuxMint. When I first got in to linux I was (shamefully 😅) looking for something that was as close as possible to Windows and a turn key experience with both installation and app compatibility. Linux mint was what I settled on personally.