I think i'll wait for your debian review
btw installing synaptic and APT on an RPM based distro is quite insane
The only distro that im interested in apart from Mint (and eventually Debian which i have used in the past) is
Arch Linux...
Though i don't plan on giving it a shot in the very near future, since it is a 'learn how-to' distro and i have some stuff to do before that...
Nice and interesting work anyway !