I would say if you want to try any other distros install KVM and Virt Manager on your system and run those distros in a VM (virtual machine).

Don’t install over Mint. I did that mistake and its a waste of time. You waste alot of time installing, configuring, copying back your data from a backup, and then after a week something stops working or you don’t like it, and then it’s back to repeating the process again…

After all my distro hopping I learned this: they are all the same. Only the desktop changes but underneath they are identical and work the same.

Yes, Arch gives you the latest packages but that’s not really important because mostly it’s small bug fixes. And often that can break your system, especially on Manjaro.

I’ve also learnt that Mint is the absolute best distro in the Linux world. Trust me it’s the best.

Why? It’s based on Ubuntu which means your have the widest variety of apps. Even proprietary vendors who target Linux will make a deb. They may not make an RPM but they will make a deb. Same for drivers.

Also Mint had been very well setup by the Devs to be very efficient, fast, attractive, easy to use and the choice of apps is very good. I only need to remove a few apps and install my preference but it’s minimal.

Mint has built in system backup which isn’t always on other systems, and Mint is very reliable. It’s the Debian of the Ubuntu distros - it doesn’t just break on you because they are careful with their uodates, so you can rely on it to keep working.

You’re already on the best, so play with the others in a VM and save yourself a lot of hassle.

If you insist on the bare metal experience, I’d say partition your drive so as to keep Mint on one half and install the second distro on the other half and dual boot. That way you still have Mint when you get tired of the other one.