I have personally had a lot of issues with pop os on my laptop (related to power management, waking up the WiFi card, overheating leading to a kernel panic, GPU refusing to go to sleep), which disappeared as soon as I installed Endeavour OS.

Well, how do I put it… compliance is optional

USB killer would be a fun thing to bring to the US and have it searched despite your claims that it is not a flash drive

I mean, if somebody calls Linux an operating system, they definitely should not be working as an IT professional