I understand that people don’t like Ubuntu and Linux Mint doesn’t have great security. But I have serious issues with fedora probably due to NVIDIA 1650, which I thought shouldn’t have given any issues but it did. Sometimes it hangs on shutdown, sometimes brave doesn’t open etc.
So I wanted your opinion on LMDE, I used it it was great, it was pure debian but better.
Have you tried asking community support forums such as Fedora Discussion or r/linuxquestions? Off the top of my head I can think of two possible solutions which might work depending on the cause of the problem:
- You may need to install and use different drivers for your GPU.
- If you’re using Fedora Workstation or Fedora KDE, you may be having issues with Wayland rather than Fedora itself. This can be fixed by switching from Wayland to X11 on Fedora KDE. Or if you really like the look of Linux Mint you can also use Fedora Cinnamon which provides the same user interface (desktop environment) as Linux Mint.
X11 isn’t secure which is why Privacy Guides only recommends distributions which use Wayland, but if Wayland isn’t working for you there isn’t really an alternative besides going back to Windows. It’d still be more secure to use Fedora over a Debian-based distribution like LMDE or Linux Mint due to their faster release cycle, even if you need to use X11.
If for whatever reason you still don’t want to use Fedora KDE (X11) or Fedora Cinnamon and want to switch to a totally different distro, I don’t see any security benefits to using LMDE over Linux Mint which likely offers better usability and community support, so I’d probably recommend Linux Mint over LMDE.
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I’ve used it in the past, and liked it for the most part.
My concern is that Mint’s developers have stated on multiple occasions that it doesn’t receive nearly the same amount of developer attention compared to mainline Mint, and that it is still in their eyes primarily a proof of concept/backup plan. In their opinion, Ubuntu continues to be the better upstream for Mint, now and for the foreseeable future.
As a non-professional project with a focus primarily on ease of use and the desktop, Mint already struggles to keep up in some areas (e.g. security) even with their main edition (e.g. slow to glacial adoption of secure boot, wayland, etc). I would be somewhat concerned that this would be even more true of LMDE, but not concerned enough that I wouldn’t use it if I had strong reasons for wanting to use it. But overall I don’t really see why a Mint user would choose it over Mainline (Ubuntu based) Mint, or why the broader Linux community would choose LMDE over Debian itself.
Out of curiosity, if you are interested in using Debian, why not just use Debian? What value-add do you feel LMDE provides?
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Honestly, just tries and live boot to see. Will be faster than looking online to see 
The same reason why people use ubuntu rather than debian