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by twic 3825 days ago
I've been out of the desktop Linux world for a while. How does Arch compare to Mint? I rather like Arch's rolling release model, but Mint sounds like a seriously polished piece of work.
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Mint also has a rolling release based on Debian.

I looked at Arch but the install looked difficult, so I ended up on Manjaro. Arch based with an easy to use installer and package manager. Works great on the laptop I am currently typing on, but its a bit crashy on my Gigabyte brix (though Mint had problems on that box as well).

> Arch based with an easy to use installer and package manager.

What's different about Manjaro's package manager? Is it a porcelain for pacman?

There is a graphical one available, which wasn't available when I looked at Arch.