I'm wondering that myself. Mint doesn't normally use XFCE, or at least didn't when I used it in the past. It was always a fork of GNOME. So maybe that's the new

I'm wondering that myself. Mint doesn't normally use XFCE, or at least didn't when I used it in the past. It was always a fork of GNOME. So maybe that's the news? Mint is also pretty popular as an alternative to Ubuntu for Linux newbs, so I can see why people think it's interesting and upvote. We get a fair amount of distro release announcements on HN.