Linux Mint Debian

[Les Elliott]

The first machine I installed LMDE on was an Asus Eeepc which had xp on it.
 I did a dual boot to find out what kind of problems I might have but
everything seemed to work.  After a few weeks of testing,  I wiped the disk
and installed LMDE  and have had no problems other than minor config issues
which I don't remember details.

Its been running almost 2 years.  Updates occur infrequently and without
errors except for one.  That was a flash update which caused a problem with
Chrome, but the next update fixed it.  It was a minor inconvenience and I
just switched to Firefox.  This is the only update issue I have had, and
since I wasn't tied in any way to Chrome, no problem.  I did report it on
the Mint forum.

Good luck.  (As always ymmv.)

Les


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:01 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Les
>
> I am thinking about installing Linux Mint Debian on a laptop for someone.
> I ran the live disk on a non PAE Latitude D600. I was impressed. It even
> ran the onboard wireless automagically.
>
> I am wondering what the install will be like. Wondering if it will perform
> installed as well or at all as it did live. What's it like doing the
> updates? Do you do the Update Packs, or switch your sources to follow
> Testing? The end user has some Linux experience. Will the end user be able
> to deal with it? Any thoughts will be appreciated.
>
> Tom
>



-- 
Les