I haven't tried mint in, I think, about a decade...but Garuda is very polished, there's definitely some occasional weirdness but that's something to be expected in any distro that's relatively new. I've had great experiences with the official forums, any time I had an issue I wasn't able to figure out on my own and made a post, I'd have one or more of the devs popin and give either a solution or endorse one that had been given by a different user.
Thinking about it,I'm definitely going to switch back this weekend. Might even stop being lazy and integrate the surface stuff into Garuda's kernel....might.