If you're using Debian Jessie (what I'm running right now) or later, don't use rEFInd; EFI install goes beautifully. If you want to dual boot OS X you can just

If you're using Debian Jessie (what I'm running right now) or later, don't use rEFInd; EFI install goes beautifully. If you want to dual boot OS X you can just make a boot option that runs exit and call it OS X or whatever. I'm using debian and i3 and I couldn't be happier with my setup (okay, I could, but it's a lot better than OS X!). I don't know how well GRUB EFI works with Mint but I used their live CD for the install and it seems to boot pretty smoothly.