For me it was Boost (also Joey, but for a much shorter time). Jerboa works fine I guess but I'm really looking forward to the release of Boost for Lemmy.
Solus deserves to be mentioned here, it's a great distro. The project went through some turbulence earlier this year but seems to be back on track as they've just released a new .iso.
Yeah, the main reason I keep lurking there is because it's just a great way to keep up with things. For example, during the last few years I'd never miss out on any important tennis matches or One Piece chapter releases thanks to their subreddits. For more general news the fediverse has been good enough.
Eh, I think knowledgeable people know better than to trust such implications. If you're savvy enough you can do everything you want on any distro, but if you're just getting into Linux there are some better, less challenging entry points and Mint is one of them.
Absolute classic.