technically you can change any distro to your liking. but I believe Mint is more common by default to make it work for new users more easily.
#is mint good for ricing
ornate cipher
pliant harness
If you check out unixporn, most of the posts you see there would be using arch and hyprland. You can theme mint to a certain extent. But if you want more freedom and freedom, a WM would be a better choice.