Unfortunately, Mint is a dying distro, pulling back services and dev team shrinking. Something is seriously wrong in Mintville. The root cause is that Mint brings nothing to the table.
When Mint was the early adopter of Mate, there was an argument for using it. But Mate was added to the Ubuntu repository, then later, Ubuntu Mate became an additional full service flavor of Ubuntu.
Now Mint, with a tiny dev team barely able to keep up with Ubuntu development anyway, had their services (highly overrated--there's no advantage at all for Windows migration vs Ubuntu) done faster and better by the Ubuntu Mate team. Check and mate (pun fully intended hehehehehe). Game over.
In a year I predict there will be no Mint. They will join the Ubuntu Mate team and go forth boldly as it should have been in the beginning.
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