After lots of distro-hopping, using arch for many years, I switched to Fedora and never looked back. I just want things to work, and fixing little issues gets boring really quickly, so I stopped using arch.

Can’t compare to Mint, but I’m happy with Fedora. I like it because:

• It’s very up to date but not bleeding edge.
• Flatpak support is great.
• Ships with vanilla Gnome.

mint is a really stable base, doesn’t make me fiddle with the shell if i don’t want to, just works out of the box, and has an installer that isn’t ass.

fedora is pretty stable too but they also make things harder for users rather than easier.

I prefer Mint just because it’s what I’m used to. Otherwise both are pretty solid distros.

fedora works like a clock and adopts new tech first in the industry

mint feels like using windows 7 in 2023 - unreliable and dated