What does LMDE 3 offer that plain Debian does not?
I'm currently running LMDE 2 and will upgrade to something newer in the next couple of days.
When I first switched to Mint from pure Debian, the main reason for it was that I hated Gnome 3 and wanted MATE. Now the situation is reversed: LMDE does not offer a MATE installer, while Debian does.
Assume that
- I am sacrilegious---willing and able to install codecs and some drivers from the Debian non-free repo;
- I do nearly all configuration from a terminal; and
- I do all updating and backup from a terminal,
is there any reason at all to go with LMDE over plain Debian?
Thanks.
Edit. I suppose, for others who may have a similar question, that I should mention that I did hint at a couple of features that the Mint version offers (easy proprietary codecs, the Update Manager, and backup and recovery tools; some of these things might be in the current version of Debian---I'm not sure).
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I'm currently running LMDE 2 and will upgrade to something newer in the next couple of days.
When I first switched to Mint from pure Debian, the main reason for it was that I hated Gnome 3 and wanted MATE. Now the situation is reversed: LMDE does not offer a MATE installer, while Debian does.
Assume that
- I am sacrilegious---willing and able to install codecs and some drivers from the Debian non-free repo;
- I do nearly all configuration from a terminal; and
- I do all updating and backup from a terminal,
is there any reason at all to go with LMDE over plain Debian?
Thanks.
Edit. I suppose, for others who may have a similar question, that I should mention that I did hint at a couple of features that the Mint version offers (easy proprietary codecs, the Update Manager, and backup and recovery tools; some of these things might be in the current version of Debian---I'm not sure).
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I'm currently running LMDE 2 and will upgrade to something newer in the next couple of days.
When I first switched to Mint from pure Debian, the main reason for it was that I hated Gnome 3 and wanted MATE. Now the situation is reversed: LMDE does not offer a MATE installer, while Debian does.
Assume that
- I am sacrilegious---willing and able to install codecs and some drivers from the Debian non-free repo;
- I do nearly all configuration from a terminal; and
- I do all updating and backup from a terminal,
is there any reason at all to go with LMDE over plain Debian?
Thanks.
Edit. I suppose, for others who may have a similar question, that I should mention that I did hint at a couple of features that the Mint version offers (easy proprietary codecs, the Update Manager, and backup and recovery tools; some of these things might be in the current version of Debian---I'm not sure).
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I'm currently running LMDE 2 and will upgrade to something newer in the next couple of days.
When I first switched to Mint from pure Debian, the main reason for it was that I hated Gnome 3 and wanted MATE. Now the situation is reversed: LMDE does not offer a MATE installer, while Debian does.
Assume that
- I am sacrilegious---willing and able to install codecs and some drivers from the Debian non-free repo;
- I do nearly all configuration from a terminal; and
- I do all updating and backup from a terminal,
is there any reason at all to go with LMDE over plain Debian?
Thanks.
Edit. I suppose, for others who may have a similar question, that I should mention that I did hint at a couple of features that the Mint version offers (easy proprietary codecs, the Update Manager, and backup and recovery tools; some of these things might be in the current version of Debian---I'm not sure).
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