On 15/09/13 01:42, Bob wrote:
As you have seen I dumped Ubuntu after the Unity scandal. I did make the assumption that all Ubuntu releases would have the awful Unity installed. (Must confess I didn't check them all out)
Not liking the default desktop manager is a strange reason to dump a whole distro IMO, particularly when there are sub branches of that distro offering different defaults. But even without that everything else is just an apt-get away.
I run native Debian on my two laptops now. I was happily running Ubuntu but with Gnome Shell rather than Unity, the only reason I moved from that was I decided I preferred the rolling release model rather than the big upgrade every 6 months.
I must confess that I do like Mint but I have previously had problems with sound on other distros that I tried.
I had pretty good experiences with the Debian edition of mint. Never tried the stock editions. I still don't fully understand the reason why they run both but LMDE is a nice step towards running "proper" Debian. They should concentrate all their efforts there rather than the "Yet Another Ubuntu Derivative"