Re: Form or function?
"What would interest me is a description of what new things I will be able to do with Mint / Debian / Ubuntu / any other new linux distro"
For me the apex was reached when they decided to ditch KDE3.x and started on and never finished KDE4.x then went onto KDE5.x.
At the time of KDE3.x a linux/gnu based system did everything I needed.