I will have to test them out but I mostly use RHEL based distros for various reasons. It has been a while since I ran something like Ubuntu/Mint. I would normally just use base Debian rather than something like that.
Shit man, I'd actually argue that Fedora is easier than some Ubuntu variants (base included). Ubuntu is fucking hosed now on all ends. The Kernel is a Frankenstein that crashes because the day ends with a Y, and Snaps are not only slow but install multiple copies of dependencies for no other reason than Fuck You.
That is possible too but the ubuntu base's have a very large "desktop user" community and many org's build packages for them because of that. I don't care about building my own apps from source or creating my own RPM's but it is not for the "daily" typical user that mostly wants to read news and check email.
I will give credit to Mint. It's stable as fuck, and keeping everything repo based makes them very easy and friendly to use. Can't speak for PopOs, but I assume its the same based on what I've heard. I'm not a fan of the release cycle myself. I'd rather have rolling, or a long cycle for stability. In my experience, releases with 6 months cycles have a nasty habit of breaking or acting very strange after an upgrade. I dumped Mint for Manjaro back in 19.2 to 19.3 because the upgrade broke the Cinnamon file manager and made opening my HDD a bitch and a half
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