Peak KDE moment. It has so many options most will never use.

Minimal Debian with Flatpaks is the way I went, too.

• Deselect everything except Standard System Utilities during installation.
• Reboot
• sudo apt install plasma-desktop kwin-wayland cups dolphin konsole flatpak
• edit /etc/network/interfaces and comment out the interfaces it configured during installation, so network manager can take over
• flatpak remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo and install your software
• Reboot

Found the issue:
plasma-desktop recommends kwin-x11 first, and kwin-wayland as an alternative.
So if you just install plasma on Mint, it may install kwin-x11 only.

sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland should pull in everything that’s needed.

MX Linux would be another option for a desktop-oriented Deb-based distro.
But the packages aren’t really newer than Debian (some are, some aren’t).

Honestly, I’d just run Debian, get kernel, drivers and firmware from Backports if necessary and install Flatpaks for software I need to be newer.
I don’t need the latest, freshest version of the KDE printer setup utility to be honest.

But in general, it’s always better to fix your issues on the distro you have. Mint is what you’re looking for. KDE does support Wayland, all it needs is in the repos, and there would be no point for Mint to patch that support out.
Do you not have a “Plasma (Wayland)” option on the login screen where you choose your session?

Yes, but do you actually get that cheaper price when you walk into the dealership? Or is that just the bait they dangle in front of you to get you there so they can play their pricing games with you?

This idea was already publicized and dispelled when I was in university studying Climatology, 15 years ago.
It fucks up the oceans’ pH balance, likely kills off more marine life than it feeds, and >90% of the CO2 is re-emitted within a few years anyway, cause there’s no way an ecosystem will just let nutritious unoxidized carbon go to waste on the sea floor.

The great thing about our age of technology is how fast we can make progress now.
What took 16000 years back then, we can achieve in the next 100.

I made it a habit to add whatever place I want to navigate to, or add info like opening hours, if it is missing in the map and I have the time.
It’s a really satisfying feeling to set an address as destination, knowing you put it on the map.
I also use StreetComplete to gamify my daily mental health walk.

Those can’t be more than 1%.