All my experiences running mint have amounted to a broken and out of date distribution which has poor hardware support. I hope it has become better wince those

All my experiences running mint have amounted to a broken and out of date distribution which has poor hardware support. I hope it has become better wince those days (i believe it was the initial release of MATE) but I see no reason to use mint when you know enough about a Debian based distro to pick and choose what you really want.