I like Ubuntu because I have PTSD from the early rolling release distros like arch when it was new. Maybe it improved but back in the day you had to watch every update for breaking shit you had to do manually.

5 years standard support and 10 years security support with pro (free) and no release changes breaking things is very nice for stability and them not needing help from me for a long time.

I'll load up a mint VM to check it out and see how it compares.  

 Never tried Mint? Awww man. You'll see what I mean, I bet. It's very GUI focused but same ol Linux/GNU undercarriage.