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My current LMDE Gnome desktop. I'm rather fond of it.

Well, I've already learnt one lesson. Read the update pack notes before jumping the gun! Now I'm stuck with an ugly terminal and calculator for a while, but hey ho. It does at least show that the new update manager is going to be incredibly useful.

I made the jump to LMDE today, after having a few issues with LM11 and Ubuntu Natty. I thought I might as well dive straight into the Incoming repo seeing as I haven't exactly got much to break!

The first time I used Linux was, funnily enough, to rescue files from my first Windows laptop. The hard drive had completely packed up, and by the time it managed to boot Windows, the whole thing would freeze up. I vaguely remembered that you could run some Linux distros from the CD, which might all...

I like Banshee the most, but for some reason I always end up with about 500 "unknown" songs whenever I introduce it to my library. Rhythmbox figures everything out straight away, so while it's not quite as slick I'm sticking with that for now.