Is Linux Mint dropping the Ubuntu code base?

[RobertX]

Lately, I've heard that since Ubuntu is becoming a security nightmare with the Snap packages, many people are hoping that many GNU/Linux distributions, including my favourite Linux Mint, are dropping the Ubuntu code base and many more will follow suit.

While I can't argue whether it's the right move, the real loser will be me.

Now, I'm not afraid of a little change to shake up the status quo, but I've been relying on a very useful remastering (i.e. package customisation) tool and have been using it for years. https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-Your-Us...#pid283533

If the remastering software is rendered useless, there will be no convenient way of adding and removing software to prevent time wasted from downloading and installing them the hard way.

I have come to rely on the remastering software, known as Cubic by the way, to do that and I will be quite displeased.

So, has the move been started yet? What do you think about it? As migrating users, what have you done to prepare?

Let me know.

[lifegoo]

Lately, I've heard that since Ubuntu is becoming a security nightmare with the Snap packages, many people are hoping that many GNU/Linux distributions, including my favourite Linux Mint, are dropping the Ubuntu code base and many more will follow suit.

While I can't argue whether it's the right move, the real loser will be me.

Now, I'm not afraid of a little change to shake up the status quo, but I've been relying on a very useful remastering (i.e. package customisation) tool and have been using it for years. https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-Your-Us...#pid283533

If the remastering software is rendered useless, there will be no convenient way of adding and removing software to prevent time wasted from downloading and installing them the hard way.

I have come to rely on the remastering software, known as Cubic by the way, to do that and I will be quite displeased.

So, has the move been started yet? What do you think about it? As migrating users, what have you done to prepare?

Let me know.

There is no need for concern. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) has been around several years and is still active. If you must switch distro and want to maintain Mint that's the way to go. Keep in mind that Ubuntu is a Debian based distro as well. They are compatible with each other and for majority of end users there is no real difference using any distro under Debian other than the default app/desktop environment which you can change. 

Mint Debian Edition was made specifically in case Canonical (The developer of Ubuntu) went under.

I am not familiar with Cubic, but I would expect it to work on nearly any distro. Apps built for a major Linux branch like Arch/REHL/Debian/Gentoo// can almost always work on other branches. Usually the issues encountered are in disto's being built with different versions of shared library's. When a lib is missing you can simply install from source or with binary package (in the event  that the official repo does not provide the versions you need) and use a symlink to direct whatever app you have that needs that specific library. Linux is equipped with cli tools to make inspecting the requirements of binary's and build sources easy. Case in point, I run a number of REHL only software in Mint by converting the rpm packages to deb with Alien then sym linking library's.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Personally I don't care for Ubuntu. I used it in 2015 and Canonical had made an agreement with Amazon to report all Ubuntu usage data back to Amazon including menu searches. It also included the amazon web store app and services which could not be removed and was enabled by default. I felt there is no reason for a linux user to put up with that and defeated the purpose for switch off of Windows in the first place (Privacy and Security) and went to CentOS for a while.

[RobertX]

I don't care for insidious corrupt capitalistic practises (now I sound like a commie, something I hate!), but Ubuntu has always made things simple, and Linux Mint, under Ubuntu's code base, made it more simpler.

Since Mint had Ubuntu's code base, you would have to hand it to Ubuntu to make stuff easy.

All in all, I need Cubic and APT to make life easy for distro customisation.

[lifegoo]

I don't care for insidious corrupt capitalistic practises (now I sound like a commie, something I hate!), but Ubuntu has always made things simple, and Linux Mint, under Ubuntu's code base, made it more simpler.

Since Mint had Ubuntu's code base, you would have to hand it to Ubuntu to make stuff easy.

All in all, I need Cubic and APT to make life easy for distro customisation.

APT is made by the Debian project since 1998 and has passed down stream to Debian derivatives since, so you wont be missing that in a non-Ubuntu downstream distro. 

I tested Cubic in a clean vanilla Debian 9 VM, it ran without issue. no special setup required. I believe It will work on any Debian derivative. It would likely run under other major Linux branches as well with minor adjustments. Although I admit to not being a Cubic user, Cubic appears to only be a front end interface utilising existing cli tools.

This article supports that Cubic can run on any Debian derivative, despite Elementary being Ubuntu downstream.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how...ith-cubic/

[RobertX]

How did you install Cubic? PPA on a Debian setup? Compiling via source?