What is difference between mint and ubuntu

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what is difference between mint and ubuntu

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Mint has a lot of proprietary stuff in like Nvidia drivers, flash and so forth. Also the default apps are different and the desktop can use mate which is a fork of Gnome2.

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/23020.aspx
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/linux-mint-vs-ubuntu.html

The mint community is also drastically smaller than the Ubuntu one

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arnupharb (arnupharb-master) said :
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.