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It seems to have a poor reputation for security, though.

• Sylos 10y ago
  It does, I don't think that affects it much, though, because it's still so much less likely to catch a virus on Mint than it is on Windows, that it's still an upgrade for people switching over from Windows, which is sort of Mint's target user-base anyways. They've also done some work on security with their latest release, mainly making kernel-updates more accessible...
  • mavhc 10y ago
    Do they support upgrading yet though? If I wanted to reinstall my OS every year I'd go back to using Windows 95
    • Sylos 10y ago
      You can manually edit the APT-sources to point to the new release and then let it perform a dist-upgrade, which is, as far as I understand it, the same as Ubuntu or Fedora do automatically. The Linux Mint devs just don't think that's a good way of handling upgrades, so they don't have a button for it. You can read their reasoning here in section E : https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2 https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
      • mavhc 10y ago
        Except unlike the other OSes, they don't test it. That's why I went back to Ubuntu
    • type0 10y ago
      Well, they support it for better or worse, you can upgrade from version 17 to 18 since they don't use systemd, on Ubuntu if you go from 14.04 to 16.04 you should do clean install.