press on or go back?

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

I recently downloaded Mint KDE 64 bit into a Toshiba laptop. Seems to work
fine, but I haven't explored all the features yet.

I'd be interested in comments on Mint.

Peter


> Any thoughts between Linux Mint Debian Edition and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
>
> After much suffering over the last year with an older machine running
> Windows 7 I did two things:
>
> 1. Picked up a very nice new Windows 8 machine (making my wife happy)
> (and StartIsBack making me happy).
>
> 2. With all the data backed up somewhere else, began a project to
> rehabilitate the old machine.
>
> Starting from scratch I installed Windows 7 and Linux Mint. New
> software on old hardware solved nothing so the next step was a new
> motherboard (Gigabyte with integrated everything) and processor (AMD
> X4 something or other). This cured all of Windows 7's ills. The Linux
> Mint Debian Edition partition mostly works nicely EXCEPT FOR SOUND.
> I’ve been googling and poking at this problem without success. In one
> of the posts I read, “In Linux, sound either works or it’ll drive you
> crazy trying to make it work.”
>
> I chose Linux Mint Debian Edition over Ubuntu even though I’ve been a
> happy Ubuntu user since about 8.04 for a few reasons: DE is supposed
> to be a bit lighter on the CPU than some other flavours; it’s a
> rolling release so I hoped to avoid periodic reinstallations; and
> there’s increasing criticism of arrogance and megalomania at Canonical
> — the initials, interestingly, are MS. Yesterday evening I had the
> bright (?) idea of trying a handy Ubuntu 12.04 LTS AMD 64-bit LiveCD.
> Sound WORKS!
>
> Which brings us back to the question: press on or go back?
>
> This isn't a request for help with DE sound. I know there'd be shouts
> of "Not the place for that!" (Of course, if someone has universal and
> foolproof solution to my problems I'm all ears.) But I thought it
> might be worth sounding out (sorry!) the group on the relative merits
> of Ubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition or other editions, or other Linux
> flavours for someone who is not scared of the command line and editing
> configuration files but whose Linux knowledge is not deep.
>
> (Also with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS at end-of-life in a few days, there are a
> few other machines for which I need to pick a migration path sometime
> soon.)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> John Martin
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