Maybe not. 
But…still interesting to see if any difference.
I will report back for sure. Didnt mean to divert the discussion into off topic but I guess its the pub, we are ok
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I almost went down the pub this evening. Instead I bought a few bottles and came down the EnOS pub instead. I saved myself some money and am having more fun talking to like-minded people instead! 
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If you can take it into work for decent access - then a coffee break will see an online install completed - all updated! Jes’ saying…
That’s probably the best option anyone could give. It’s so good.
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You maybe right. Still curious about the new installer, and no 
+distro install, which is a key combo for distro hopping.
Just take a sneaky hip flask loaded with some booze 
And all this for the sake of distro hopping, I like it!
Distro hopping, boozing, it’s all good fun. If it ain’t fun don’t do it. There are times and situations in life where we all need to be serious. Apart from those times we may as well just have fun.
Thanks! 
People think I was joking, because it does seem like a silly suggestion, but I was serious. It would solve the OP’s problem.
Just curious why would you choose linux mint, why not eos and cinnamon when the OP is on the eos forum? Could it tell us the OP already made kind of a choice at this point in time?
One if my distro hopping problems is actually not the distro itself. With time/experience I realized what plays a key role is not mint vs ubuntu or debian, but rather the underlying package management (apt and deb, vs pacman etc), repos with package availability, and distro type (rolling vs point release). Once thats chosen, the availability of DE comes into play.
I say just choose i3wm to break the DE choice dilemma. I like choices… and i3wm, but thats mostly opinionated and my workflow.
Sorry, to clarify main drive will always be vanilla Arch and add repos like EOS’s repo for nice tools now and in future development
I am obsessed with trying out new distros in separate internal drives, tweaking, adding packages as if my daily driver and doing same thing with other distros constantly. I think my problem is that the interest lies more in installation and configuration than actually utilising post install.
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Well, EndeavourOS is not for everyone. The OP complained that he had too much choice, and mentioned windoze as superior because of the lack of choice. So, I made a choice for him, and being a reasonable person that I am, I decided to play it safe. After all, the OP would not have a choice any more, so I had to put my preferences aside (which are Arch+Plasma) and make sure the choice I made was a good, solid one.
You just can’t go wrong with Linux Mint.
It also has snaps disabled, so that’s a plus, too.
You don’t get a say in it, that’s not how “not having a choice” works! It’s Linux Mint from now on for you!
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Make it the Debian Edition and you’ll have my +1.
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I wouldn’t suggest anyone just LFS ever.
Yup. I don’t think you were joking, i wouldn’t be. I think Mint is absolutely fantastic.
Because nearly everything works, so there’s not really any good reason to hop unless purely out if interest.
Thus making it one of very few Debian/buntu based distros i could recommend.
I recently tried it, and it’s not bad, but it’s nowhere near as good as polished as the Ubuntu based Mint. It pains me a lot to say that, but it really is.
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I would use VMs too, they are just too good not to use. After a while I dont feel the need to use them anymore, I tried enough distros and I can live in peace using EndeavourOS… for now
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In general I like Mint with cinnamon, but “everything works” was not the case for me, I actually had some quite bad breakage just by updating using their update manager when they upgraded a kernel and firmware.
My understanding from interviews and podcasts is that if you really dig into what linux mint is and the type of patches they have to do on packages to make things work, it is not a given that Mint is a rock solid choice in the long run. But thats my two cents, perhaps they have fixed these things in the meantime (last time I tried was in summer 2021), don’t really know.
Edit: but I also wanted to point out that I had some good experience with mint too, especially with new linux users switching to it in one of my open source classes
It’s still summer 2021. . . Unless you’re in the Southern hemisphere.
Sorry meant 2020
lost track of time
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