Understandable considering that it wasn't a general-purpose distro, but a cloud-centered one. Distrowatch focuses on "popularity", and that metric tends to focus more on general-purpose distros.
Nothing in life is guaranteed, Clement Lefebvre could die tomorrow of a heart attack and without his leadership, the rest of the Mint developers could lose interest or the next guy in line to pick up the torch could be incompetent or something and the project would die just like that. All of this is just hypothetical, of course, but completely possible.
My point is: never take anything for granted. I'd say that Ubuntu LTS, being backed by an actual company, is the safer bet for production systems, but that's just my opinion, of course, others might think different.
There could always be a standards body for documents the way there is W3C for the web. We've accomplished a lot with cross compatibility and every platform being able to do much of the same thing through the web. For documents, sticking to that approach could be beneficial too.
This sucks, but make sense with their cutbacks. I was going to see if I could get it work on a laptop again. On top the optimizations, the modular security especially interested me.
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