I imagine the Mint people chop all the Unity libraries out, which means no Dash search or lenses, hence no sending of search terms to remote servers. I think t

I imagine the Mint people chop all the Unity libraries out, which means no Dash search or lenses, hence no sending of search terms to remote servers. I think that they use the Ubuntu repositories for base packages, X server and for installing application software and add their own repositories on top for the MATE specific stuff such as MDM and MATE itself. Disclaimer: I don't currently use Mint