interesting! Thanks for posting your feedback, I think mint is really great, I'm an ArchLinux user but I like having mint installed on some laptop, the installation is very straightforward and I feel it's way less bloated than Ubuntu for example. And pretty much everything worked out of the box with the laptops I've installed it on (mostly dell laptops).

I haven't used Ubuntu much lately but I remember always having to add community repository to get some package I needed. (Also one of the reason I love Arch, a lot of packages there updated more quickly than most distro + the AUR for everything not present in official repo)