@itsfoss What I always miss when Ubuntu is mentioned as our "savior" is that they would be nowhere without Debian. It's just Debian with some extras.
Many distros used to start with Ubuntu and go from there, but more and more go back to Debian as a starting point. Mint LMDE is a least as good, maybe even better than the standard Ubuntu based edition.
So people, use Debian or a Debian based distro. We don't need Ubuntu, it's just another distro.