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I am happy for the Linux Mint team
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I think OP is talking about Mint's Desktop Environment only.
If Mint works out of the box, pretty much any modern distro will. It's about the kernel, not about an individual distro anymore. There's nothing much special about individual distros except UI, and package management, of which Mint shares the latter with any Debian-based distro.