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I've installed Linux Mint Debian Edition onto one of my machines! I have been using Mint (the one made using Ubuntu) for about a decade and I'm happy to finally cut #Amazon out of the loop.
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) feels almost exactly like Linux Mint. The only difference I've noticed is that it asks me about the GRUB bootloader more at setup than I recall from Linux Mint.
If all continues to go well with my first machine, I'll be switching the other machines to Debian Edition, as well.
I had a hard time finding information on the differences between specifically Debian and LMDE online that wasn't just AI-generated clickbait garbage, but I have the general impression that LMDE has more set up for me at the outset, which is what I prefer.
@caten out of curiosity, how is amazon involved in linux mint?
@isAdisplayName I was remembering something from around 2012, as it turns out:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks
The founder and CEO of Canonical (the company that develops Ubuntu), Mark Shuttleworth, apparently defended this. I haven't been able to find any financial information on Canonical more recent than 2008, and since it's privately held there's no reason we should know what kinds of deals they're making.
I don't know all the details of what the Linux Mint people are up to either, but I haven't seen anything unethical like this so far, and there is not such an obvious profit motive in that project.
I suppose it's more accurate to say I want to cut #Canonical out of the loop.
@caten Maybe it was back in the day when Canonical made a “little” Ubuntu version for the cloud - Ubuntu Core?
@mikolasan @isAdisplayName It was definitely the adware scandal from 2012 that I was remembering. I didn't know about that Ubuntu version, and that doesn't sound quite so underhanded.
@caten oh yikes, that's pretty bad. Thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard about that before.
I've been super happy with fedora for pretty much my whole life. But the acquisition by IBM has made me wonder to which os I'd turn if fedora started doing, well, exactly what ubuntu did lol.
@caten The machines I use at work have variously Debian, Ubuntu and Mint on them and to be honest the difference isn't super large. Every so often I might be puzzled how to do some network setup thing where the one has a somewhat different tool from the other (or such) but in reality I can go all day on one of the computers without even knowing which of the three I was working with. The difference between different versions of any one of them sometimes seem larger than the differences between them. 
@caten I've used LMDE some time ago and later changed to the usual Mint. LMDE used to be quite outdated. But in general yes, Mint with Debian base vs Mint with Ubuntu base, that's it.