Horse {they/them}

• my hardware is pretty new, support for it is shaky on slower distros
• i prefer to do small, generally reliable updates frequently rather than large, failure prone updates infrequently
• although rare, i have run into the wall once or twice on slow release distros, where a program i want to use needs a newer version of a package than my distro supported
• i like pacman, it’s a nice package manager

mostly customizability and good support for new hardware
if you’re running a pc with no major components newer than ~2-3 years old then mint is fine
the idea that it’s “bad for gaming” is nonsense unless you’re running near-bleeding edge hardware or are exceptionally sweaty about eking out an additional couple of frames per second