Buddy I've got my pronouns in my username please don't misgender me.

Additionally, your response is needlessly hostile. You've offered no additional information and have chosen my comment to be a naysayer on presumably only because it is the top comment on the post. You've contributed nothing but vitriol to this thread.

I couldn't give two shits what distros people use, and I'm not a fucking shill. OP wanted a suggestion, I gave 4. I used tobhse Fedora because it's easy, with a large community, and with the bleeding edge release cycle the newest libraries became available more easily without enabling testing repositories or using sketchy PPAs that haven't been vetted.

If OP weren't noob, and weren't someone who has already broken a mint install three times I'd have recommended that use something Debian based or Arch based, but they are, so I didn't.

Or maybe they're just genuinely a fan?

Yeah, those people who use and recommend it are just in the pocket of Big Fedora!