I think which Linux distro you use should be like religion and politics should be a personal matter ;).
That said I am a Mint XFCE user and have been back to 13 (before that Gnome 2) every release has been brilliant I run it on everything from an ancient ThinkPad to a thoroughly modern development machine and it has worked well.
It's also the only WM/DE that handles multiple screens (3 on both desktops and 2 on Dell/External) without any show stopping/tremendously irritating bugs couple that with the huge amount of software available via Debian/Ubuntu and PPA's and it's a cracking developer OS.
That said I am a Mint XFCE user and have been back to 13 (before that Gnome 2) every release has been brilliant I run it on everything from an ancient ThinkPad to a thoroughly modern development machine and it has worked well.
It's also the only WM/DE that handles multiple screens (3 on both desktops and 2 on Dell/External) without any show stopping/tremendously irritating bugs couple that with the huge amount of software available via Debian/Ubuntu and PPA's and it's a cracking developer OS.