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I've been using linux mint for a couple years now, and I have the feeling that mint is growing more than ubuntu.

Do you have any data to back up that feeling?

If you trust distrowatch's pagehits then yes, it's significantly beating/overtaking ubuntu. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

And Mageia is 5 times as popular as Red Hat too, right? ;)