Nothing is making you run arch Linux with gnome wayland on your btrfs raid 5 with pipewire sound. One could have installed mint mate 16 in 2013 and painlessly

Nothing is making you run arch Linux with gnome wayland on your btrfs raid 5 with pipewire sound. One could have installed mint mate 16 in 2013 and painlessly updated between versions without huge difference between then and now. Linux isn't a product like windows it's an ecosystem use whatever works for you.