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As a super happy user of Linux Mint - guys, please keep doing what you are doing! Thank you so much for giving us a proper desktop Linux! You have my (financial) support! Don't get pressured by some random loud Internet criticism and change for worse! Please don't do Win7->Win8 or iOS6->iOS7 regression in Mint as well because of a few unhappy voices trying to acquire power over you!

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I'm going to back you up on this. I'm sorry to hear there are problems, but I won't be switching OS's. Mint has been rock solid for me.

It has been stable and reliable for me too. But the concern is not about reliability so much as security: some patches are not delivered due to the way Mint (apparently) mixes binaries from Debian and Ubuntu. It may be quite reliable but still insecure.

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