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>what advantages is that user missing out on that the newer updates offer?
Not being on the newest updates means you'll miss out on... the newest updates. Which is mostly features. I don't know how Mint does it but Debian has very old packages, and they patch those packages often to keep up with security updates, or fix small bugs, but it's still an older version of the software. Maybe Mint does something similar to its packages. Will you be missing out on anything important? I don't know, do you need those newer updates?
>Finally what's the difference between X11 and wayland? I heard wayland is better but nothing specific.
X11 has been the default on Linux since forever. One day people realized that it had quite a few issues, mostly wrt security, code size and performance in the main implementation, Xorg. So some people came together alongside other Xorg developers to make wayland, which is supposed to be a more secure, simpler , more performant windowing system/protocol than X11. The main wayland implementations (Plasma and GNOME) are pretty on par with Xorg nowadays in terms of features but there's still work to be done imo. Some software will work just fine on wayland, others won't for various reasons. You just have to try it yourself and see if it works for you.
>>187337
Just curious: How long have you been using Void for? Would you consider it a stable system, compared to like Debian (if you've used it before)?