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I mean, I use it in place of pacman.

Since it’s a wrapper, it can do what pacman does and more

Both is good, but I like the aur.

Nah, good choice.

I use arch(btw) because of the aur, but mint is a fantastic distro

Look at benchmarks.

Single or multi-core performance will matter more depending on your workload.

Oh no, they got invaded, whatever shall they do??

Hope they don’t harm the civilians, doubt they would honestly.