After using Debian (and Ubuntu on some laptop) for around 15 years or so, give or take, with a small period of Gentoo in the middle, I switched to Manjaro some weeks ago on my main computer, and I was utterly surprised how well it worked!
Okey, it's not Arch, but still.
I was surprised!
As a joke I found it funny. As a real fact it could not be more wrong... at least the Arch person. I do not know about the Mint person and to be honest with you it is none of my business :-). Are you happy with Mint? Perfect, good for you. That is the point of having so many different "distros".
Neither of these are good distros. On Mint you'll install it to discover some issue that was documented over 2 years ago and fixed upstream but the patch never made it into Mint. On Arch there's a solution but it's 15 pages of shell commands while people on the forums yell at you to RTFM.
Me viewing this with 10 available updates. I don't think there was a moment where I use my PC and the update count is 0. I use a based arch distro, but it stopped my distro hopping.
i don't turn off my arch system because if i do i have to go through the arduous process of manually decrypting the drive, mounting it, and changing to it
...i.e. it's the process of this:
cryptsetup open /dev/sdb3 newroot
mount /dev/mapper/newroot /new_root
cat /init
(last command in /init)
Fake! The first thing every Arch user does is check for updates, and the second thing every Arch user does is check for updates again, for good measure. I mean, is there even any Arch user that doesn't check for updates every two seconds?
EndeavourOS user, can confirm that there's a certain appeal to entering the pacman or yay command, hitting "y" a couple of times, & watching the little pac-men go. Extra nice when the update is actually smaller than what it replaces, which never happens in Windows.
You are missing a type of user, arch user who reads documentation and follows good practices 😉. BTW I never had a better experience with another distro than arch. Also BTRFS + Timeshift can save you hours.
Been trying to find a good distro after hopping around for a while. Just jumped to Mint a few weeks ago after some frustrations with PopOS. Overall I am digging it a lot so far.
For me it was openSUSE TW.
Has any major Desktop environment right in the install wizard and runs stable as hell since its basically the oldest and most mature linux distribution historically.
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Okey, it's not Arch, but still.
I was surprised!
...i.e. it's the process of this:
cryptsetup open /dev/sdb3 newroot
mount /dev/mapper/newroot /new_root
cat /init
(last command in /init)
Has any major Desktop environment right in the install wizard and runs stable as hell since its basically the oldest and most mature linux distribution historically.