Mint breaks weirdly often but also it's inconsistent in my experience. It's a great example of it explodes for some people and others it's a god like entity of perfection. Never in-between. Lol

What's wrong with it?

Once it happened to me because 6 years prior I'd made a change thinking 'hah. That makes more sense' and then things changed under me and I had to read journalctl in a tty. Low key enjoyed dealing with it. But here's the thing: most ppl are dead at that point. No idea what to do. Arch is for nerds.

Edit: this is a completely different thing. I had two issues.

If Nvidia deprecates your driver you'll be up shits creek on just about every distro unless you already used nouveau.

Yes, that was a while ago, so it's a repost. Also, NoVideo deprecations affect all distributions.

To be fair, adoption as a concept is the problem not the actual aur.

The fundamentals of the aur was fine though that entire ordeal. It's just one optional choice layered on top that wasn't

Blaming the aur fundamentally for that choice is like blaming the city planner for when a idiot turns down the wrong way on a one way street.

We kinda just accepted the risk because the upsides were worth it. But some people are assholes and gotta ruin it for everyone.