Yeah I agree with the sentiment, use whatever is good for you, but I feel like most advanced linux users are not using Mint. They typically come to the realization that everything is either Debian, Arch, or build it yourself so they use one of those.
I'm running Debian 12 for while now and it works great. Gossip says you need to get everything from flatpak because the packages are so outdated, but that's bullshit.