On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 06:26 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > > > > > > I recommend that you try Linux Mint Debian Edition. It gives you Debian > > Squeeze and a really nice desktop (and really easy to install nVidia > > drivers). > > Even though it is from "Testing" the Mint team and community do further > > testing before releasing updates too so it is really stable. > > > You haven't read any of my previous posts on the matter then. I > disagree! LMDE is the most appalling pile of doodoo I've ever had the > misfortune to use. Can't install this, that blows up, no headset, no > ffmpeg! and so on. I really enjoyed zapping it after a month trying to > work with it. > > If they'd've used debian squeeze instead of wheezy it would have been > fine. And plenty current enough I reckon. > > I too had a few problems with the earlier version and went back to Linux Mint based on Ubuntu but when the latest Ubuntu and Mint came out I decided to retry LMDE (201204) and have found it fantastic. Go on Steve - give it another try and see what you think. -- Robert Fisher
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