I am currently a Linux Mint user for one reason; I wanted an OS that "just works" and Ubuntu 10.04 failed me. Linux Mint 9 has no issues that Lucid had, so essentially I'm running a patched version of Ubuntu.
I noticed today a new edition of Mint was released called LMDE; Linux Mint Debian Edition, based on the Debian Testing branch but "Mintified" with the same extras that Mint applied to Ubuntu's base.
For me, this might be exactly what I need. I want an easy to use, out of the box OS. It's not that I can't tinker/fix stuff, it's that I shouldn't have to spend time doing so on a production machine. Recent releases of Ubuntu have been failing me. I haven't used Ubuntu very much over the last year or so; mostly OpenSUSE or Mint. Stuff that worked for years on Ubuntu stopped working on Karmic/Lucid (webcams, mic, multimedia keys, a remote, nvidia graphics overheats among many other things) and for some reason Mint didn't have any of those problems despite being based on the same releases of Ubuntu that drove me insane.
If LMDE works out well enough for me, I'll probably switch over. I'm currently trying it in VirtualBox and so far so good.
I'm excited to see where this goes. What about you?
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