Arch forces you to learn about Linux internals and components. Most people don’t need to know these things to work productively with their computers. Arch is more of an „build your own OS“ toolkit than a well defined base operating system. Two Arch installs can be more wildly different to use than Fedora and Ubuntu. That’s why you need the mountains of documentation. Arch wiki is great, but it’s not perfect or correct. Lots of outdated info lingers there as well.
BTRFS with subvolumes is they way to go, I agree. Mint sadly still defaults to EXT4 with only an encrypted /home. I installed Mint recently and a modern partition setup like you describe was difficult to get working. I don’t even remember, what I ended up with.
security
The AUR is a security nightmare.
easy snapshotting and rollback
That‘s an area Mint is pretty weak in.
OpenSuSE
Makes fantastic distros, that more people should use.
The AUR is no more a security nightmare than Linux itself. Much of it is built by god knows who, and the fact that code is inspectable, doesn’t mean it is.
Arch forces you to learn about Linux internals and components. Most people don’t need to know these things to work productively with their computers. Arch is more of an „build your own OS“ toolkit than a well defined base operating system. Two Arch installs can be more wildly different to use than Fedora and Ubuntu. That’s why you need the mountains of documentation. Arch wiki is great, but it’s not perfect or correct. Lots of outdated info lingers there as well.
BTRFS with subvolumes is they way to go, I agree. Mint sadly still defaults to EXT4 with only an encrypted /home. I installed Mint recently and a modern partition setup like you describe was difficult to get working. I don’t even remember, what I ended up with.
The AUR is a security nightmare.
That‘s an area Mint is pretty weak in.
Makes fantastic distros, that more people should use.
The AUR is no more a security nightmare than Linux itself. Much of it is built by god knows who, and the fact that code is inspectable, doesn’t mean it is.