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It's been a while since I installed Debian directly, anyway I believe it's a godsend as a base and amazing as a server, but for desktop usage I prefer derivatives because I find them more user friendly.
LMDE vs MX: they're both really good, MX is a bit more "nerdy", LMDE is beautiful out of the box and has the total friendliness of Mint, MX (XFCE) is a little more barebones when it comes to user apps/GUIs but it has some fantastic tools to get into its customization, more flexible than LMDE from that point of view.