I told myself when they redesigned their '90s website I would try their desktop again. Well they recently redesigned their website for the first in almost 20 years, so I owe Mint another try! 
But yes Mint, Cinnamon, Mate, etc. all seemed very dated.
Only just now seen your reply!
Yeah, I guess this makes sense. If you use your desktop a certain way and you experience countless times of crashing and freezing, then the distro doing it would put a sour taste in one’s mouth. I completely get that. I was just shocked because most people I hear talking about Linux talk up Ubuntu and Mint to the moon.
One more vote for openSUSE.
YAST is a disaster and zypper slow like a floppy disk drive 
Honorbale mentions:
Garuda Linux
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Noooo! Haha. Not openSUSE. It’s usually among the best.
I have heard good things about Garuda as well.
How about: Suicide Linux 
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For my experience one of worst Linux distribution I was on was: PC LINUX OS.
This distrubution is a completly mess with the available apps and the repositories.
I was testing this distrubution like a couple of years ago and I did not fit myself. I don’t know if the development team did some progress until now.
I’m not on this distribution for many years now but I don’t have great memories about.
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Oh this one racks my brain. Worse Linux ever? I can only think of Ubuntu when it had the first Unity desktop. But is that fair, I was so new to Linux I didn’t even know what was in front of me.
Every distro to me has pros and cons. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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Once upon a time there was a bad build on one instance of Gentoo Linux, and an update STARTED to overwrite my entire disk where I multi-boot my systems. I stopped it and got rid of it, but also Gentoo Linux was “supposed” to be so efficient because it was directly compiled from source code. I never found it to be more efficient, but I did find it to be more cumbersome, so I decided to write it off. It may actually be “excellent” to some, but just like the other stories here, once we have a “bad experience”, many of us give up on that particular distribution.
As for SUSE, a long time ago SUSE, one of the very early distributions, had a problem with accuracy and stability. My personal experience has been that the openSUSE project, for the most part, has been a very good and successful effort, the “Tumbleweed” variation has been excellent, Enterprise SUSE is a top distribution and openSUSE is an excellent test bed for the development of the enterprise versions.
Bottom line is that we each have our own “Best” and “Worst” stories; often it’s just that hardware support for specific hardware is strong in different areas depending on where the distribution in question originates.
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