Linux Mint has issues - http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-...

Yes, a failure at safely distributing software is a pretty big failure when it comes to distributions.

Mint, elementary and the other "user friendly" distros should focus on creating the desktop and leave the distribution part to projects that have the resources and the staff to maintain the infrastructure.

The /boot bug is unreal, I just ran into that a few months ago.

It's super frustrating. There's no reason I need twenty kernels on my machine :-p

Ubuntu actually only keeps the current and the previous kernel as necessary and give the user the option to purge all the old kernels. These old kernels will be marked as autoremovable and by setting a flag in unattended upgrades config you can make it autoremove those. On desktops this happens automatically.

On RHEL, it happens on servers, too - anything is better than your /boot partition filling up on its own!

It shouldn't, the default is to keep 6 recent kernel packages.

Yeah I can use several languages (C,C++,python,go,rust,x64,perl,scala,etc...) But I always envision starting a project in C or C-like C++ because I learned it first and after decades I know that language inside and out and my brain's "workflow" and my actual tool setup and personal libraries means I can crank working solutions out extremely quickly.

when someone refers to their parentage/ancestors as their "lineage" it almost always means they are royal/upper class/landed gentry, etc...

example: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/lineage-british-royal-fam...