Your privacy is very important to us. At Linux Mint Team we are committed to gathering as little personal data as possible, ideally and in mosts cases, no data at all, and when data is gathered to protecting and respecting it. Here are our key principles when it comes to privacy: Your data belongs to you.

Is Linux Mint good for privacy?

While Linux Mint doesn’t have the potential privacy issues that Ubuntu does, it certainly doesn’t provide the ultimate in privacy protection. … But if you are looking for a more private open-source operating system that’s easy to switch over to from Windows, Linux Mint could be a good option.

Does Linux collect data?

Most Linux distros do not track you in the ways that Windows 10 does, but they do collect data like your browser history on your harddrive. … but they do collect data like your browser history on your harddrive.