L3ft_F13ld!

Not with that attitude.

but what is the Mint experience?

Mostly just the way Mint is set up out of the box and having most of the Mint tools available. I remember LMDE lacking some of the tools like the GPU driver installer last time I tried it, but I’m sure those are either being added over time or will be in the future.

LMDE tries to give you the Mint experience on a Debian base. It’s Debian for people who like Mint, I guess.

The combination of those three people in the meme would be… Interesting

Maybe try EndeavourOS.

It’s pre-configured Arch, since you said it ran Arch well.