mk, you might like to read it as well.

Debian is really good, I do recommend giving it at least a try sometime. But bare in mind that because it focuses on stability you might end up having problems with installing some of the programs due to version requirements. If you have nVidia hardware instead of AMD you are better covered anyway (better support in general in my experience and drivers from nVidia don't leave you with impression that Linux is on the furthest backburner possible), but you might end up being frustrated that program N requires (for example) xorg 6.5.5 but even in Debian SID (most unstable and with newest software) they only recently added 6.3.4. Numbers made-up for purpose of example.

Overall, Mint is much less fussy for people who don't want to dwell too much in command line but Debian is by no means a bad system. However, since it's a basis for *buntu and Mint and many other distributions you have to be aware that there are some extra steps to do in order to improve some functionality or use fairly recent software.