Do other GNU/Linux distributions have any advantages over Linux Mint?

>>58955098
Gentoo is better so install gentoo

>>58955098
Mint is the worst of the popular distributions, easily.

It's like this, right.
Debian works.
It's complicated, nonstandard, difficult at times, but it works.
So people fork debian expecting their distros to work too, but they're clueless of how debian is set up so they'll run into issues they can't comprehend.
Well, at least canonical is competent. With Linux in general, but not in the debian variation of Linux.
But then there's the team maintaining mint. And these people are actually incompetent. Their websites have been hacked a few times, they are slow to add security fixes, they overwrite some packages from debian and Ubuntu repositories causing missing or wrong dependencies, and they ignore most legalities with different software licenses.

Mint is the worst distro you could use or suggest to people.
If it just werks for you, that's because you need proprietary drivers and firmware mint shouldn't distribute.

I'll also note that Manjaro is in similar position to mint, but without that competent company in the chain.

I find mint to be quite user friendly, and reliable. A whole lot less fucking around than my gentoo machine is.

>>58955235
Then what about Ubuntu?

Botnet much?

Mint is the best as long as you don't mind ancient packages. Otherwise I'd use antergos