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What features do you specifically want? You mentioned sandboxing. Anything else?
I'd say just keep it simple. If you're comfortable with Debian then stick with that, study up and learn how to harden it. Kali, ParrotOS, Mint, Ubuntu.....they're all just based on Debian with different preinstalled apps and desktop environments. Fedora and Arch are kinda weird and unique, I'm not sure if I'd recommend those for anyone, unless you KNOW that's what you need. Qubes seems interesting, I'm not familiar with that.
But I'll point out that ALL of these distros are miles ahead of Windows in terms of privacy. So just by using Mint for a while, you were already ahead of the curve.
I could make a list of all the things I would want in a distro as far as privacy, but a lot of them aren't as important as sandboxing and (obviously) a system that doesn't actively make your privacy life hell. Other features would be better clipboard management (Tails and Qubes do a great job with that), no obvious gaps in security/privacy, a system that you don't have to build yourself, etc.
I think I've used Fedora more than I have Mint, but I have been completely Windows free for years now!