I ended up blaming it on my motherboard because I couldn't get anything to boot and I probably read a thread about it. Meanwhile any other linux distro seemed to work fine.

No idea though.

But since then, I haven't bothered with Linux Mint. Trying to stay closer to Debian and further away from Conical.

That seems super robust.

I suppose now I need to decide if I should go with a trendy new distro or the classic.

My thoughts are similar, therefore LMDE is the best choice!

Canonical's policy for several years goes into a bad side and reminds Microsoft more and more:

- He pushes to users with his sick ideas ONLY because of a business, for example many violations of privacy, spying for Amazon, Unity, obsessive forcing snaps (because they completely control the repository) ... etc. Here read more: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Host_Operating_System_Selection#...

- Ubuntu with every new version is getting worse and has more and more bugs, And with them all Ubuntu derivatives

- The publishing cycle issuing new versions using the force method at a fixed time limit, even when it is not fully ready and has full of unprotected errors (only marketing counts)

- LTS promises support and fixing errors, but does not keep the word and there are security errors never fixed

- Additional broker between Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint increases the surface of attacks and errors in comparison to Debian -> Mint.

- Debian has been a bigger reputation from Ubuntu for many years

- The LMDE team makes a fantastic job, but LMDE is poorly visible in the galaxy and is very underestimated.

LMDE = All the best of Debian + all the best from Mint!