Love Linux. Ever heard the podcast "Linux outlaws"?
Used mint before, but made some changes on another OS (BT5r2) which resulted in my computer wouldn't start. Had to reinstall, and decided to tru ubuntu, which I had tried some years ago and I liked it. Installed it without using the "try live" version. Shouldn't have done that. Ubuntu is using Untiy, and the software center is casesensitiv and so on. Heard that Arch Linux is a good OS. Slackware seem to be a good OS aswell, haven't tried it though.
Mint 13 (Maya) is out in case you didn't know