I've been trying out Linux Mint on my test hard drive and I have to say that I'm really impressed. It's not just the features, cause I know how to set all that up myself, even though the MintMenu is rather nice. This distro is just fast. I mean really fast. I don't know how they did it considering it's based on Gutsy (Slow).
Now the 2 best distros I know (IMO) are Ultimate Edition and LM. I think it would be awesome to get a Linux Mint Ultimate Edition. I thought about this last night and remembered the script that upgrades Ubuntu 7.10 to Ultimate Edition 1.6. I tried that and everything seemed to work fine. WRONG. I booted up this morning to that section in grub and I got a nice light show. The usplash would come up and then the monitor would start blinking on and off. Oh well. One can dream right.
I still think that a collaboration between us and Linux Mint could produce a very awesome distribution. I don't think there would be another on that could touch it if one were made.