Your post read as if the normal Mint edition is directly based on Debian and therefore not affected by Ubuntu policies, which isn't the case. The download for

Your post read as if the normal Mint edition is directly based on Debian and therefore not affected by Ubuntu policies, which isn't the case. The download for their Debian Edition is hidden away under "other editions" as "LMDE". If you click on "recommended" you will get to the main download page which doesn't even mention the Debian Edition: https://linuxmint.com/download.php https://linuxmint.com/download.php