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Linux Mint is so good I have a hard time understanding why anyone would use Ubunty. I've used so many distros over the years, but I always end up with Mint in the end. Canonical's horrible choise regarding the snap drama is just another reason to stay clear of it.

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They have had a lot of security issues from serving hacked ISOs to withholding kernel updates.

https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/

Yea I am much happier on Ubuntu and snaps with the backing of a much larger corporation with a security team. Ubuntu is a staple that competes with RedHat and is used commercially in a lot of places. No idea for Mint, but it has far less support.

Has there been any movement on this front since 2016? I've also heard of these security issues with Mint, since around that time, but it's been four years and I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt that it's possible they've improved in that timespan, one way or another.

Fundamentally Mint doesn't have a security team so who knows and who is checking? They are talking here about a expensive build server for making chromium. Compare that with Ubuntu which has a full blown security team with salaries.

The resource difference here is massive.

Anyone looking for anything will be looking at Ubuntu rather than Mint. Mainly because it's the base for everything else and actually has commercial worth.

If you trust them, go ahead but I'm sticking with Ubuntu.

I've been using Mint for years but its desktop environment is somewhat lacking - I have one 1080 and one 4K monitor and it's impossible to have Chrome windows on both with a reasonable font size. I wish they hadn't discontinued KDE version.

Totally agree. I loved Mint but once KDE was discontinued I switched to KDE Neon and haven't bothered looking at anything else. I can't imagine not using KDE plasma. It is just so nice.

I personally like Gnome 3, I really do. Mint does not come with one. So, although I am not a big fan of the UI theme of Pop_OS (I find it kinda childish) , I decided to switch to it. The only concern I have so far, is if I can trust System76 or not.

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