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

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.

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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.

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