Linux is Linux... if you know it well enough.

Distro mainly determines package manager, and init system. You can put whatever desktop you want on any of them, and theme it how you want, and spend countless hours tweaking and setting it up how you like. Or you can run Mint, and do something else your life, like date women. 

 💯 Mint w/ Cinnamon nails it for normies. 

 Mint nails it for non-normies too. I'm a Linux guru, but I have better things to do then to tinker with Gentoo or LFS.