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Only Manjaro. Every distro has something different. Unfortunately, regular breakages isn't a differentiation people are after.
Elementary OS, Zorin, Rhino and Mint are all the same.
Maybe. Mint came first, and I wonder what purposes those other ones were trying to serve. I don't know or care enough about the others. Do they differentiate enough to bother with?
At first, ElementaryOS was really trying to be for MacOS refugees what Mint is for Windows refugees. Later on they were trying to be their own ecosystem, and I haven't heard from them since. Zorin...yeah Mint exists, what are you doing.
Haven't heard of Rhino.