EFI-Booting Ubuntu on a Mac by Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com. Originally written: 1/2011; Last Web page update: 6/17/2013 (last major update: 5/4/2012). Compares Linux distributions (major, minor, regional) in simple table format. Information such as price, support, documentation, included packages. Linux Mint vs Ubuntu comparison. Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution on personal computers and Linux Mint is the second most popular. Even though Mint is. Ubuntu is different. Everything is done via repositories and it uses a dedicated update manager to update both the operating system and all of the applications installed.
Take Arch, for instance, they never forget their Wiki. What compensates for Ubuntu is the amount of third- party websites talking about it, like Ask. Ubuntu, blogs, etc. For more hardcore users, I guess this is not the best choice.