On 15/09/13 12:38, mick wrote:
Wayne
Take a look at the discssion about "trust" in ubuntu and its derivatives athttps://github.com/nylira/prism-break/issues/334 The question addressed is whether (for example) xubuntu should be trusted because it does not contain the unity lens and/or other privacy infringing software. It is not just about the desktop manager, more the philosophy of the distro builder.
The OP didn't make it clear that this was the specific reason he disliked Unity (there are plenty of other valid reasons)
If you dislike Ubuntu's practices and want to avoid the software on philosophical grounds then I'd say Mint (other than LMDE) isn't a practical alternative any more than xubuntu etc are. From that I (rightly or wrongly) ascertained that Bob just hates Unity :-)
I found the Mint LMDE version worryingly out of date (for security updates) quite quickly. At least ubuntu released patches quickly.
You do know it is 100% compatible with the Debian repo's ? so you can have your security updates the same time Debian release them, in fact up until fairly recently this was the default.