Corb_The_Lesser@Tesseks Mint has an excellent reputation. It offers 3 desktop environments -- MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the most modern, developed and maintained in-house. There's a focus on gradual refinement rather than adoption of shiny new things.
Mint maintains a small number of packages itself, The other packages available to a Mint user are installed directly from Ubuntu's repositories. Ubuntu periodically migrates packages from Debian's repo to its own. (In use, none of that matters.)
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