let's see if i can demystify some FUD-ish ideas i see around here about the KDE ed. going the LMDE route:
breakages:
- since
july with the update-packs this is not a concern anymore; and frankly, even between september last year and last july (when all we had in LMDE was the raw debian testing repos) the
issues (if you consider the over one year time span) were never that serious (like in loosing totally the ability to login again) and the major problems came from nvidia/ATI;
easy-of-use
- i not trying to say that running a system based in testing is easy (like in Minty-easy-of-use) as it was the original LMDE, that's why Clem mirrored the debian repos and came out with the incoming and latest idea (for maximum stability);
usually, pure debian assumes that the user knows a few things (about pkg management, the system itself) mint and LMDE are closing that gap and making it easier, but it's *still* not dead easy (i'm always a bit scared everytime a get a new user that comes to LMDE straight from windows - it's not impossible, but demands a higher learning curve)
more important - what's in for the community
- but the above plan will only work if we have users using the incoming repos (and testing regressions and upgrade issues), and i'm very happy to acknowledge some requests made in this topic for more cooperation between the devs and the community - so this is one of our changes: point the repos to incoming and when the UP arrive test them, report everything you see weird and help making latest the more trouble-free possible; isn't Mint a community-driven distro? so this is one opportunity for us to help
