killer de bug wrote:MtnDewManiac wrote:I do wonder why there is a LMDE, though (seriously).
Maybe because it's a different base, perfect for different users like me who don't want to deal with the Ubuntu based edition?
LMDE is also faster. And no reinstallations are needed.
I knew about the "one-time install," but hadn't considered that it might be a big issue to some. In truth, if I hadn't recently learned about how quick and easy it is to stick a copy of an .ISO into my /boot/grml directory and update Grub so that I could boot into the .ISO (I still think that's neat!
) and install Mint (et cetera) that way - even onto the same hard drive - then I'd
really see the appeal of it, because I cannot boot from USB, memory card, or (now) optical drive on my computer
.
I didn't know about LMDE being faster. I don't really do anything with my laptop where I'd notice how fast (or not) it is, but for people who are doing things that max their CPU cores for periods of time, I'd expect that shortening that time would be a big plus.
To be honest, I wondered if the purpose of LMDE, at least originally, was to encourage ALL of us to start using that instead of the main edition. I was thinking that, maybe, it might be less work for Clem (et al) to remove any... "stuff" from Debian that he might consider to be, if not bugs, than annoyances before adding in all the Mint stuff than the amount of work involved in doing the same thing to Ubuntu. But that was obviously just a guess (probably an incorrect one) - and, even if it were true, I got to thinking that it couldn't really be saving the developers any work because they're doing it
in addition to the main edition as opposed to
instead of it.
Since I don't suppose that Clem is obsessed with chasing "numbers of users" like the entity behind a commercial OS like Microsoft probably is, that leaves "wants to give users as much choice as he can" as my guess. Which is nice, but... It's still extra work for the team
. And, I mean... Well, I don't actually use LMDE, so it's different - but I can say that, if he announced that he was canceling Mint Xfce (please don't, lol) - even though I'd be really upset - I wouldn't be
mad, you know? Because that's work, too. And, well... Sure, if he cancelled Mint Xfce - or LMDE - he'd lose some users (guessing), but I doubt he'd lose nearly as many as the amount of people that use whichever version that he would be canceling. Again, that's just a guess. If there was not going to be another Mint Xfce, I'd try the MATE version again. I cannot say that I'd stick with it, but I'd definitely make the attempt because I like the distro, what I've seen/read about Clem, this forum, and most of the other members that I've encountered here.
Err... Kind of wildly off-topic, I suppose. (Vaguely) on-topic content: If LMDE was based on something other than Stable - say, unstable, Sid, whatever it's called (IDK) and there was an Xfce version, I'd try that. I had originally wanted to try LMDE Xfce when I started with Mint, but I was told that even though it was "install once," the way life works is that I would probably not have been able to install it and "catch up" because it was too old at that point. Or something, IDK. I'm open to the
concept of trying it. Maybe someday....
Regards,
MDM
