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      Why? It’s the cold hard truth. Mint was created as an Ubuntu alternative that would be prettier and appear more like windows. It has never had solid corprate backing or even pillars of the FOSS community working on it. It’s a hobby project and not even a unique one anymore. Just use a fedora, buntu, debian or suse spin for new people.

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        Isn’t Linux mostly either a hobby project for a huge majority of it’s contributors, or the origin of the rest?

        I kinda seem to remember that the Linux family tree is littered with failed corporate backed distros.

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        It has never had solid corprate backing

        This is why I love mint, among other reasons.

        Recommending Ubuntu in place of Mint is a total derangement absurd.

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        The “cold hard truth” is that volunteers are more than up to stripping some the nonsense back off of ubuntu, and plenty of the people that made it good back in the day are involved with mint now. It’s no one’s favorite but this much hate for the beigest of distros is weird to me and your take on its origins is just plain wrong