TBH, almost all distros are like that. I think Ubuntu is currently the only one because they pay Microsoft’s jizya.
I was thinking that also, I think secure boot has to be turned off for Mint also. But I don’t think it is really needed.
But what I noticed is that the packages have been made proprietary and you have to register to get access to these. Not sure I like where that is headed because I’m thinking most of the packages are the same as what’s available and can be updated to the newest version in Synaptic.
Does the distro also require registration I wonder? This would be a deal breaker for me considering.
Maybe I have a bad attitude, But but needing to register in order to access linux packages which are already freely open source from other repositories kinda rubs me the wrong way. :)
But it looks interesting because it does have the option of a Cinnamon desktop which is out of the box windows user friendly and familiar.