Probably years of usage by intelligence agencies and criminals until someone notices. (with no possible way to know for anyone that there even is a exploit). And even then it might take months for them to fix it.
Exploit found in oss: Depending on the usage of the software several people are looking for security holes and they usually get fixed ASAP. Of course it is possible that there’s an exploit nobody finds and a criminal uses, but it is not more likely because he can read the code. If your code must be secret to be secure your code is anything but secure
In my experience Linux is better at printing than windows. Especially debian based distros.
However you can just Google your printer and see if there are issues.
Edit: can’t read. I don’t know if there will be any change on printing since mint really just removes snap and Ubuntu stuff and adds flatpak and a few smaller details.
Ok so now let’s assume a god like sentient creature formed our universe. Maybe they even intentionally created us.
We have no indication that they even once interacted with us in over 2000 or rather several million years.
Let’s go further and assume the god like creature is indeed the Christian God.
We have an immortal, allknowing and allmighty God who doesn’t care about innocent dying, suffering and other cruelties. So if the Christian God exists he is an asshole!
Little fun fact, because the explosions for this scene were so expensive they had no money left to pay for actual horses so they bought some coconuts instead.