Trouble at Linux Mint — and beyond

I do! But unlike khim I recognize that I'm a bit of a lunatic and that what everyone else, particularly people looking for security, should do is use a distro to let the trouble off them and to avoid wasting time. (My network-exposed and sensitive boxes run Debian stable, though with glibc replaced to get my stack-protector patches. I'm *so* looking forward to not having to do that last bit.)

I don't do this because of security -- that's a ridiculous stance. I do this because I'm a control freak and hate changes in my working environment and don't want anything to change unless I changed it, and because I want to know the interrelationships and build trickeries of every package I run. I'd now say "because it's been useful in my job so often", which is true, only that doesn't explain why I started doing it fifteen years before I worked for a Linux distributor. The correct explanation is "because it's a habit and a really silly hobby", kind of like stamp collecting with packages. It is not a security benefit.