I posted in the Microsoft Community on a STARTUP_LOAD_ERROR I am having with the current version of Skype. The response is
What version of Debian is LMDE 2 based on ?It looks like you're using a Skype version we don't fully support yet. The only supported versions are listed below:
64-bit Ubuntu 14.04+
64-bit Debian 8.0+
64-bit OpenSUSE 13.3+
64-bit Fedora Linux 24+
Ron