$89 computer

[Michael Butash]

In my attempts to flee ubuntu before (unsuccessful), I tried mint debian 
edition on my new laptop, and found it to be something of a basketcase.  
Graphic issues, lock-ups, very odd app issues, lack of proprietary 
support (ahem, vmware, amd), etc with cinnamon, switched to mate, found 
it to be better, but all the same issues persisted.  This was both on my 
intel graphics based laptop as well as my desktop with the ati and 6 
displays.

After yet another SSD died in my desktop, I was curious so put mint 
de/mate on it too to find all the same issues were about 10x worse with 
the ati (go figure), but same sort of odd tearing issues globally and 
lack of 3rd party (good) support killed it. Even putting ubuntu with 
mate on it had the same issues.  Their compositor for cinnamon or mate 
just seems to be crap.

I had to resolve it as it was impacting my work, tried about every 
distro trying to find some new religion, and eventually settled back on 
(k)ubuntu as "sucks less/devil I know", which usually means remove as 
much ubuntu as possible and it's adequate/good. Even better again since 
I figured out to stop using chrome|chromium to keep the system sane.  
It's mostly rock solid again now that chrom* isn't killing xorg.

I don't so much blame debian as cinnamon/mate here, but they were simply 
not adequate for real use imho, at least as of 6mo ago.  I do tend to 
find I'm cursed too, anything that can go wrong usually does for me.

-mb


On 08/03/2015 02:49 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> You can get a Debian core Mint now as well (on version 2 based on 
> Debian Jessie.)
>