My struggle with getting small Linux distros installed on my laptop

[Marc Lijour]

How do you find the Mint Debian edition?

I am looking for a rolling distribution, but I am concerned about losing
compatibility with Ubuntu and its large repositories.

Thanks

Marc

2012/9/4 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:46:08PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:37:22PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > > I'd be curious as to how stock Debian compares...  It can certainly be
> > > tiny, more so than most options out there.
> > >
> > > Expected challenges to me would be...
> > > - might need to pull custom kernel to support hardware, as Debian has a
> > > tendency to elderly kernels in stable releases
> > > - I'm not sure WiFi support is necessarily what all would term
> "friendly"
> > > (mind you, haven't tried that lately, so I could be surprised)
> > > - not sure what out-of-box touch sense you're likely to get
> > >
> > > But I'd expect "office" software to be handled pretty happily.  And
> you can
> > > have *any* window manager you want, including plenty of obscure ones!
>  :-)
> >
> > I don't find Debian difficult to get on a laptop and working, but of
> > course some laptops have unsupported hardware that makes things harder.
> >
> > If you want life to be simple, try mint.  My wife tried it on her ideapad
> > and everything just works it seems.  Quite something to see for a linux
> > install.
>
> That is, the mint linux debian edition.
>
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