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Old 03-21-2012, 06:10 AM   #1
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LXer: Debian Stable -- set it and forget it -- spoils me for fresh Linux Mint 12 on some very nice Z


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Spending a couple of days intensely running Linux Mint 12 on a very nice desktop PC sent to me for review by ZaReason (much more about that later), I probably shouldn't have been surprised by the annoying bugs in Mint that made me a lot less productive than I am in the Debian Squeeze system I've been running on my laptop since late 2010.

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From my experience of Mint and Ubuntu they are a little quicker to get going with media codecs and proprietary drivers but if you're willing to put in a little more time (I wouldn't say hours?) during setup then Debian isn't any more difficult to live with and, as with your XFCE example, often seems a litle more polished.
I would actually recommend that anyone who has become comfortable with using Mint or Ubuntu (changing sources.list etc.) give Debian a try because they may prefer it.
 
  


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