What's there after mint
For context,i managed to get my first laptop(used,of course) last christmas,and as soon as i got it i installed mint on it,and honestly,i have never really regreted it. In my opinion mint is a fantastic example of linux, it only occupies 1.5/2gb of ram on idle,you have all the linux plus(open source,root access/sudo authorization) and the debian family plus (stability and reliability),but i also liked the built in tools like the integrated tool to flash usbs or the system setting feautres,so overall i'm all in love with mint (except the app store,never really used it).
The problem now is....i'm looking on a desktop pc and i'm deciding if i should do a bit of distro hopping or not,couse i've never really tried something different,and i've heard of the AUR attack and the difficulty of installing arch,but i also dont really consider steam os in the near future couse why would i need an os centered on gaming if its not my priority with this pc (also i hate the steam helper for taking up 1gb of ram,and i had 16 on my laptop)
So i'm wondering whether or not i should try something still in the debian family or is there something else you could recommend?
to give more information i mostly code,that's why i'm not really looking forward to steam os,but i'm also looking at local llms couse why not it would be sick and with file scraping on the pc would probably improve production but idk the implication and os requirements it would have