Please do not conflate Debian with the Ubuntu/Mint family. These are very different distros, and actually Mint also has a Debian-based LMDE edition. Fedora is

Please do not conflate Debian with the Ubuntu/Mint family. These are very different distros, and actually Mint also has a Debian-based LMDE edition. Fedora is nice but Debian is just rock solid if you stick to the stable release channel. (You'll mostly want to stay away from the Testing and Unstable releases, these are for experimentation not for production uses.)