EndeavourOS is fantastic. It's my default distro because I love Arch, but CBA installing it manually these days. I've done my time with the Arch installer over the years 😂

And the community is great btw.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Mint.

There's a small army of Linux "snobs" that look down on it for recondite and mostly silly reasons. Mint is a great and user-friendly OS. The only thing I can say against it is that many of the binaries in the distro app manager are very out of date, but this hardly matters now because AppImage and Flatpaks are so on top of it and great.

You don't have to. I'm a long time Linux user and extremely well versed. I still use Mint and Debian because I'm an old fart who likes things that just work.