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Mint for Mint then maybe the Debian Edition (LMDE) instead the the common one based on Ubuntu, which again is Debian just LTS. ~~Also, if OP is tired of Microsoft enshittification imagine him finding out Ubuntu's company Canonical decided that apt command should sometimes install snap packages instead of deb binaries, because "reasons"~~ (NVM lucky us at Mint there are sane people). Or that it tried to put ads in their OS even before Windows even tried.