On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 20:45:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
I suspect Mint may need to do things that way just as a
manpower issue. Mint's a popular distro, but I get the
impression it's development is a relatively small grassroots
thing with much more limited resources than say Debian or
Ubuntu. (Of course, I could be wrong.)
This matches my observations too. It gained lot of popularity
when Ubuntu switched to Unity as default desktop environment and
Fedora moved with Gnome 3 - quite many users started looking for
a distro with more conservative defaults. However its development
/ maintenance team does not seem to match that popularity burst.