&gt; They basically had no effort in their security,<p>This is clearly hyperbole.  &quot;no effort&quot;?  C&#x27;mon.<p>&gt; no idea how long they were compromised, and couldnt even respond effectively.<p>The hacked .iso was up for less than 24 hrs, so that puts a hard limit on the worst part of the compromise.  The forum issues they fixed in a couple of days.  This seems like a reasonably effective response to me.<p>&gt; I was a big fan of Mint usability who reluctantly had to ditch it.<p>Did you really <i>have</i> to ditch it?  Or did you just decide to go with a distro that emphasizes security over convenience?  (Which is, of course, a completely reasonable thing to do, but others may make other (also reasonable) choices.)