And, importantly: the same applies to Windows. How many updates has Windows had that broke something essential with no user intervention?
Fact of the matter is any OS can break if you purposefully try to poke around without knowing what you’re doing.
What distros that are more “resilient” to breaking do is either prevent you from easily/accidentally poking around, prevent you from applying updates willy-nilly, or set up easy rollbacks in case something breaks (or a combination of these).
Imo, if you’re not a tinkerer and you have a distro with backups properly setup, you’re very likely gonna be fine no matter what distro you choose.
Though Mint is still awesome and if you don’t have any problems with it just keep using it.
And, importantly: the same applies to Windows. How many updates has Windows had that broke something essential with no user intervention?
Fact of the matter is any OS can break if you purposefully try to poke around without knowing what you’re doing.
What distros that are more “resilient” to breaking do is either prevent you from easily/accidentally poking around, prevent you from applying updates willy-nilly, or set up easy rollbacks in case something breaks (or a combination of these).
Imo, if you’re not a tinkerer and you have a distro with backups properly setup, you’re very likely gonna be fine no matter what distro you choose.
Though Mint is still awesome and if you don’t have any problems with it just keep using it.