Have used Mint. Like it, but I was wondering if Ubuntu/Mint also succumbed to the wokisms.
I like Mint too. It is my daily driver. But for the adventurer I found one that is pretty cool. Easy OS, It is designed to be super secure and run completely from a stick and in ram without leaving a trace on the machine. The OS is basically a virtual machine builder as a base protocol. You can clone the OS on the fly with one click into isolated containers.
I got started out playing with some of the early distros, but I adopted Linux with RH5 and stuck with Redhat for quite a while. But now I am a Mint man. Everything just works.