On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:39:35PM +0200, Nelson Marambio wrote: > Am 22.07.2012 10:58, schrieb gt: > > >You can try aptosid, or linux mint debian edition. > > > > Really Mint ? I switched FROM Mint TO Arch because upgrading Mint > ended up in a re-installation of the whole system :-( On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:38:52PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > On 07/22/12 05:39, Nelson Marambio wrote: > > > > Really Mint ? I switched FROM Mint TO Arch because upgrading Mint > > ended up in a re-installation of the whole system :-( > > Yes, dist-upgrade simply doesn't work anymore because Ubuntu, Mint, > and I assume Debian are all making changes between releases that break > the upgrades. That, too, is why I switched to Arch Linux. Nelson, David LMDE is not the usual mint. It is rolling release based on debian testing, so no dist-upgrade stuff. Frankly, I haven't tried it, but I don't think it will break stuff anymore than arch does. All I have heard is praise about it, but I am too engrossed in arch to give it a thought, yet.
