I like Mint. I've been a Linux user for a long time, and Mint has so many little refinements and doesn't get in my way - of course a lot of that is Cinnamon, but hey, they 're the originators of that too. Plus I'm used to apt at this point. I also find it easy to customize the way I like (nothing too crazy, just a bit): https://imgur.com/a/wPxLPkb