LOL he ' s sooo gay , I love it <| sep |> His name is so perfect for his life <| sep |> Too busy sleeping with an underage teen . <| sep |> Whatever works for you You ' re right in a way , it ' s difficult to really accurately gauge Microsoft ' s track record given that it ' s proprietary software and all . Who ' s to say how many times their security has been breached ? When I commented , I actually mistook Manjaro and Mint as be the same distribution both start with M , both have green in their branding lol . So you may a bit better off than I originally thought . I agree about checksums , but some of this ultimately boils down to sysadmin knowhow . For example , say the Mint ISO ' s are generated on that same compromised server . In that instance , I don ' t see any benefit from torrents , since the well is already poisoned the checksum protects against MitM and not evil ISO , is what I ' m saying . For userfriendliness , I ' d also check out Elementary if you haven ' t already . They seem to carry some controversy of their own , but at least it ' s not security based .