Linux Mint 11 "Katya" Goes Gold!

**krapp** · May 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by smellyman

LMDE doesn't have near the look and polish of regular Mint or Ubuntu and it also has tons of breakage issues.

If they end up breaking from Ubuntu and figuring it out then great.....

LMDE is based on Debian Testing and so the occasional bork is expected.

**Timmer1240** · May 28th, 2011

Im running Mint Debian its pretty good I like it Ive only had one package break but it was fixed in a few days Its been a pretty good ride now been using it for about 4.5 months.

**Timmer1240** · May 28th, 2011

The comment about tons of breakages not true dude!

**shuttleworthwannabe** · May 28th, 2011

I am using LM 11 Katya right now--I find it to be more responsive than Ubuntu. All codecs were installed so there is very little to do after installation--you can just start working on your machine (no excuses).

I am impressed. Wondering how they will implement Gnome 3 when it comes to upgrade to Gnome 3 from Gnome 2.x.

**valnar** · May 28th, 2011

As of today I am using Mint 11 now, at least until Ubuntu or Unity gets their act together. If they can't make a useful desktop, I'll probably move to Fedora 15/16 after I'm done with Mint.

I don't want my desktop to act like my Smartphone. Screw favorites and searching. I want to see everything I got installed at my fingertips. Sometimes I can't remember, so searching doesn't help.

**dreamer3kx** · May 28th, 2011

Really impressed with Mint 11, seems really stable, I installed one program when finished installing, everything was there and ready to use, no mucking around, thats what I want, nice.

**madmax75** · May 28th, 2011

Could be my next Linux distro as well. Either Mint or Xubuntu, the XFCE flavour of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu with Unity is just asking for trouble. I don't bother even trying it at this point anymore.