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I must shamefully admit I've been ignoring Mint since I first heard about it years back, under the assumption that it was just another transient Ubuntu derivative. But as a Debian guy, this looks like it might actually be perfect. I think I'll actually slap Mint on an old Thinkpad and try it out as a daily driver.
From what I've heard, Wayland isn't really a thing in Mint yet. So if that's important to you, you're gonna have a bad time lol
Thanks for the heads up. I'm fine with X11 for general usage, but I've read that games tend to perform better under Wayland, so that's probably going to be an important factor.
If you come from Debian, you can also consider Linux Mint Debian Edition - LMDE, which should be even easier for you.
Currently it's LMDE 6 but a new release is around the corner, with the imminent release of Debian Trixie.