I don’t remember the reason but I did get pissed off at mint many years ago. Then I migrated back to Ubuntu, got pissed off at snaps. Over to Manjaro but pissed off at weird packaging and slow updates. Arch for now but it’s only been a few years and I know myself well enough.
For your next hop consider EndeavourOS. It is Arch based and so has pacman and the AUR but it also has sane defaults and good configuration tools. Also, the default is quite pretty. Much less work to get a system going but all the flexibility of a pure Arch install.
I don’t remember the reason but I did get pissed off at mint many years ago. Then I migrated back to Ubuntu, got pissed off at snaps. Over to Manjaro but pissed off at weird packaging and slow updates. Arch for now but it’s only been a few years and I know myself well enough.
For your next hop consider EndeavourOS. It is Arch based and so has pacman and the AUR but it also has sane defaults and good configuration tools. Also, the default is quite pretty. Much less work to get a system going but all the flexibility of a pure Arch install.