Constant BSODs in Windows XP (probably caused by NVidia drivers), and then by now that’s half a lifetime ago and Linux is just my default with Windows being “the alternative that can mostly do the same thing but in less intuitive ways”

CentOS Stream 8. Which I regret. Because they ended support without upgrade path.

dev-mapper swap…

Any resume argument in your boot commands? Try removing them and see what happens

Purist, hard-line stuff like this will honestly just get you nowhere in 2023. I get where you’re coming from, but it’s simply not realistic. This is what browser extensions are for.