Ubuntu is a commercial distro. They have their own infra, they have their own security team, they have large amounts of reliable funding and contracts. Mint is

Ubuntu is a commercial distro. They have their own infra, they have their own security team, they have large amounts of reliable funding and contracts. Mint is worked by a few people, had several large security flaws including not distributing security updates timely. They had issues in the past with their ISO being hacked. I can empathize with the whole mint, small time dev-base stuff. It just doesn't make sense to me compared with just going straight ubuntu + cinnamon.