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Absolutely this. I like mint because I no longer like fiddle farting around with my PC. It just works out of the box. An overlooked bonus is when I need to learn how to do something the Mint forums usually have the answer, and its catered to Mint defaults. It's not the end of the world, but when answers match your file explorer, text editor, system editor etc..it just makes it easier. Compared to finding answers elsewhere that are for Debian and then having to wonder if it'll work or not based on the family lineage of the OS is just unnecessary for most people.
As I said over and over again: my biggest pet peeve with Linux is that there are often several ways to accomplish something but many are somewhat distribution specific and not really standardized.
Who doesn't love to find a tool that has install instructions like:
Just to realize that a) you're not running anything Debian based and b) you first step is now to find out how these packages are named in your package manager.
Or tutorials that tell you to do X and you only find out, that they're assuming (but not telling you) you're using Debian and some old package versions that now have a completely new syntax in their configuration, so that either the tutorial doesn't work or you maybe even f up something by changing values that you shouldn't touch.
Best is, of you find help in a distribution specific forum/wiki/... But not all problems can be found there