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i cant say enough about mint. its handled all the nonsense ive thrown at it and then some.
Mint is my go to desktop option. It usually does the job.
I don't usually worry about older packages. Most things run fine. I don't spend a lot of time trying to make my UI pretty. For me, the GUI is a place for terminals, web browsers, my IDE, and general tools, not some kind of whiz bang thing to tweak all the time.
Debian: good enough and stable. No worries > new features.