Debian or Mint for Games?

[teddieeb@tmo.blackberry.net]

Hi:

Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic hardware, though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my desktop.

Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe there are different distros for different things.

My roomate has been raving about LinuxMint 10 and since I may be reinstalling my OS I was giving it consideration.

I am thinking of switching to a 64bit OS only because I may soon upgrade over the 4GB RAM cap on 32bits. 

I also use the system for basic all around system and run an sshd server.

So question being is there really any advantages to Mint in the gaming arena over the capabilities of Debian itself? Really logic tells me GNU is GNU, and a personally configured system is always better, but not knowing my way around the Linux gaming world esp. Graphics support maybe Mint would offer less of an upstream battle... Thoughts??

TeddyB