Well, context is everything. Obviously there’s no single best distro for all use cases.

This is a 13 year old MacBook Pro, with ancient Linux-hating hybrid Nvidia/Intel graphics that needs an NVRAM modification and vga_switcheroo to do things like video acceleration properly.

And not my main computer, just for learning Linux and playing some old games.

So Endeavour worked great, but seemed like ultimately a computer that old is probably best off with stability and minimal updates rather than being bleeding-edge and subjecting it to gigabytes of updates each week.

Yep. I was using Plasma on Mint for a while but the consensus was you’re best off using a DE officially supported by the distro.

Never encountered any issues personally up to that point, but seemed to be the majority opinion when I researched it.

But my most recent switch was from Endeavour, so made much more sense to install Debian 13 than to Install Mint and then immediately switch DE.

Went back to Mint a few times but ultimately I like Plasma over Cinnamon, so Debian it is!