maybe this will help: https://www.debugpoint.com/fractional-scaling-linux-mint/

memes dunking on mint are irrelevant. use what works for you & ignore the noise.

personally, mint lmde, based on debian, might be worth a once over. sounds like the stability aspect might be up your alley.

yep! ended up setting a diff default page, but was more so curious about the behavior/root cause.

was doing some distro hopping & was trying out antiX on an old machine.

dl was done using the antiX package mgr.

region is english speaking; usa.

yes, manually set a different home page but was more so curious why this was happening.

does not compute. how does this response help me understand? i have read through a bunch of stuff but question has not been answered. what have i missed? pls advise.

you’ve mentioned this twice in the comments & now i’m curious! do you kind elaborating a bit more? i’m still getting a handle on all the diff distros & functionalities.

ppl laugh when i suggest gimp as a foss alternate to adobe crap. oh well, their loss ¯_(ツ)_/¯