So, functionally, is there any real difference between using Mint&#x27;s ISO to install-from-scratch versus using you&#x27;re preferred distro of choice (Ubuntu&#x2F;Fedora&#x2F;FreeBSD, etc.) and installing the Cinnamon Mint desktop on top of it?<p>I&#x27;ve been playing with Mint for the past few weeks and experimenting with full-Mint-on-a-VM versus Ubuntu-with-Cinnamon-desktop, and I don&#x27;t really notice much of a difference. After reading about all of Mint&#x27;s problems this morning, I&#x27;m tempted to stick with Cinnamon exclusively as a DE unless someone offers a compelling reason to use the full distro.