by Lysander » 2017-10-31 10:28
I'll humour you.
a) Please inform that if you have found any of the debian based distro to be better and more polished then Debian, as claimed usually.
Better at what level of experience? This is relative to the user. Mint is excellent for people who want Linux that 'just works'. Ubuntu is similarly great for beginners. They are both highly fast, stable and user-friendly. Do I find them better than Debian? No, I would say they are equally good, but for different reasons.
b) Please do inform the advantages you actually got.
Stability, user friendliness, quantity of packages [convenient for a beginner], speed, desktop environments [I used to love Unity], community support. Let's be honest, the Debian community is not that patient or tolerant of newbies, whereas the Mint and Ubuntu communities definitely are. When I was a starter, the above were all great, though over time my needs changed.
c) Should the Debian based distros continue to develop, or they should rather be the respins?
Of course they should. I don't know why this has to be asked.
d) Distro watch claims most users of Linux Mint, right now. Do you agree?
No - DW does not claim that Mint has the most users - it purely shows that the Mint page on DW has the most hits.
Regarding distro popularity - the Mint forums have over 100,000 members whereas the Ubuntu forums have over 2 million members, that should tell you something. This would mean - if we are to go on forum membership as an extremely rough indicator - that Mint has [or has had] in the region of 5% of the userbase of Ubuntu - whereas Debian has roughly 2%*. Of course not everyone who installs the OSs registers on forums [or those forums, some may register on Linux Questions or Stack Exchange], and many of those members will have moved on to other distros, but it does give an idea of the general popularity of the distros over time relative to each other.
In fact, if we are to go on forum registrations alone, which is arguably more of an accurate indicator than DW, Ubuntu would come out on top by a huge margin, followed by Fedora, then Gentoo, then Mint, then Arch, then Debian.