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I mean, that's basically the same as Arch.
Yeah, just much easier to install, which is what I want from it, I never got the argument that by installing arch manually you "learn" what's on your pc, idgaf, even as a software developer let alone a normie, I want a working system, that just works
I think that once one goes into software development professionally, mucking about with Linux configuration stops being something one does as a fun learning hobby and becomes something one does for work and hence can't be arsed to also do at home during one's free time.
Certainly that's how it goes for me: all I want from my Linux machine at home is that it delivers the least hindrance possible to my web-browsing, gaming, 3D printing and so on, whilst still protecting my privacy and letting me to a little bit of playing around with its more powerful features but only when I feel like it, not as a requirement to use it.
The same also applies to other techie stuff, by the way: I'm no early adopted of latest and greatest because I don't want to be somebody's beta tester, since I have enough hassle already testing and fixing my own code (were I can actually deploy good practices to reduce the amounts of bugs and hence frustration, unlike the vast amounts of amateur-hour crap out there being shipped as final products that are just beta tests that never end).
/RANT
You could still wonder why endeavour in particular is so great though, in the end it's all linux.
I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
Sounds fine to me. What i meant to say was that since it's all linux, the distro you pick is just customized for a certain usecase, but you can pretty much do whatever you want to do with any distro, but if you don't want to bother setting it up yourself, a distro that is already configured a certain way is more convenient, but which one is "best" in that case purely depends on what you want to do with it, but there isn't really an absolute "best" distro that everyone should use.
As I just migrated from windows this year it's just wild to me that "comes with x pre-packaged" is an argument at all. That sounds like having a windows version that already has, say, steam preinstalled, which takes 2-5 minutes to do myself (in Windows or Linux). I wouldn't specifically pick that to save the 2-5 minutes. Researching it would take longer.
Now, if we're talking about things that are actually hard to integrate into some distros that's a different question, but I clearly am not informed enough to imagine what that could be.
I wouldn't say so, for most people what you have done is good enough. However there may come a time where you have to do something janky, at that point you'll probably wish you were on a different distro, but for 95% of people, they will never run into any issues with mint.
Then arch is not a good choice. If you don’t know how your arch distro works, it will break at some point and you won’t know how to fix it. That’s the issue.
Seems a little extreme. If you’re new to Linux every distro is going to have a learning curve and you’ll start at first boot not understanding it.
If you’re not new to Linux, then it’s just another distro. For me, the only “new” thing was learning pacman’s option flags since I’d only ever used yum/dnf and apt. And of course, finding out the joy that is yay and the AUR.
Not everyone wants to spend a bunch of time tuning the install just so, and just want to be up and running fast with the bare essentials they need. For me, Endeavour is a clean and fast, has rapid kernel updates, and includes most of the things I need right out of the gate.