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If you're worried about a moving target, Arch isn't in your best interest. Because it is a "rolling distribution", elements can change at any time. The changes are incremental but they are changes.
I think Mint is great as a daily driver but for projects, I use Debian because of the software library and that it has a large community behind it. The package managers are pretty sweet as well (for those who don't like building things from source).
My PCLinuxOS rolling release is set to only update when I tell it to update. A desktop indicator sets to let me know when there are updates, but when I actually update is completely under my control.
The timing is certainly under your control but what's involved in the update may not be.
I can research any elements of the updates that I'm concerned about before I install them. And that can be a lot easier than trying to research all of the changes involved in a complete new version release.
Can you elaborate a bit? I had been a Ubuntu user when their default desktop was GNOME 2. When Ubuntu switched to Unity I switched to Mint MATE. I tried going back to Ubuntu a couple of times after they ditched Unity but it was short lived. I've used the Cinnamon version for the last couple of years. Although Mint is "based" on Ubuntu the similarities end quickly from there.
Ubuntu has chosen to use snap in installing some of its applications and I'm concerned that Mint will eventually have to cave in. Thus far, Mint has been able to avoid snap (apt refuses to install it) but they may have to leave Ubuntu entirely or replace the snap applications with Mint applications to keep this up in the likely event that Ubuntu moves more of their applications to snap.
Thanks for the explanation. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian and Mint has a Debian edition I wonder if that might be what they go to as standard. Or does Debian use snap too?
Can you elaborate on the above more?? Being new to using Linux as my DD, on Manjaro, I've been prompted to install some things with Snap
