Longtime Mint stickler here, never developed a taste for any other distro schools (Arch, Fedora, other *buntus and Debians). But tried out MX after a long period of deferring and I am genuinely blown away. This distro has everything I could have ever ask for - Debian stability coupled with advanced hardware support (with more recent zen kernels and drivers), a solid opinionated Plasma DE setup that is both minimalist and all-encompassing at the same time, and a full stock of sensible and pragmatic utilities to cover the boring stuff.
Mint’s relative lethargy at migrating to wayland has been increasingly becoming a sore point due to the sheer practical difference it makes (especially in terms of multi-monitor HiDPI and fractional scaling, in addition to security and performance). MX KDE has all that covered and then some. It’s the first time I had to genuinely stretch to find any fault. The only complaint I have is that they aren’t letting me post this testimonial in the MX forum because it doesn’t accept anon-aliased emails for logins.
But that’s the thing, I (and together with me many others) have already been doing this for a couple of years now. Granted, this is on another distro*. But I honestly don’t know why it wouldn’t be possible on Debian; perhaps (some of) the groundwork has already been put into place 😉.
Which distro would that be that does seamless major release upgrades?
Fedora Atomic and its derivatives (like Bazzite and its uBlue-siblings). I wouldn’t be surprised if the same applies to NixOS and other (paradigm-wise/philosophically-)related projects.
Hm, immutable distros change the game quite a bit. I don’t see how Debian could match that without introducing an immutable version of Debian …