the prevailing theme in most comments regarding mint i've seen on reddit and various blogs is that people like mint because it's easy. one of mint's big selling points is that they include the ubuntu-restricted-extras package by default, rather than making people install it.
if people can't install a single package, i don't think debian is for them.
what does that have to do with anything? the parent suggested debian, not "some other debian-derived distro" linux mint debian edition is definitely not debian.
if people can't install a single package, i don't think debian is for them.