Hi, how’s it going? I’ve been daily driving mint with i3 for a while now, (takes like 500mb idle ram) but I always hear mint being called a newbie distro, I know arch is harder to set up and more customizable for example, but overall im wondering, in which cases one would go from mint to another distro? what can make other distros “better” than mint? i’ll end up using a window manager (i3 or if thats not availible some other lightweight one) so differences in desktop environments i dont really care that much about
newbie generally means easy. I have been in tech for close to 30 years and have been a nerd much longer. Im not big into spending a whole bunch of time on my personal laptop though so use the newbie distros. if I want to goof around I use a virtual machine.