[MisterOctober]

Totally - Mint was my bridge from OSX to Linux. Great stuff. My impression is that the "cool kids" like to dis Mint because it's popular and easy to use. I found that its ease of use allowed me to get comfortable with the Linux ecosystem at a relaxed pace and not throw my hands up in frustration.

[regularfry]

I've actually gone the other way: started out on Debian, went through Ubuntu, and now I'm on Mint because it's least surprising of the lot of them (while being familiar enough that I don't need to relearn the world).