Mint is a goto debian distro, but I switched from Debian unstable to mint and my experience is worse. PulseAudio is wierd, when suspensing last 1 sec of audio loops, crashes, Mint is based on testing irc.
Mint is based on Ubuntu. It’s not strictly tied to any Debian release channel?! There’s LMDE as well. That’s based on stable.
why is mint recommended and debian is called kernel-showcase “only graddaddy not really a usable distro”
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Mint is very, very stable. However, not all hardware is compatible, especially since Mint is using older libraries. For most people, Mint is the best solution. For your hardware, it seems to be Debian-Unstable. I personally use both and I’m happy with both.
Mint and Mint LMDE are using Pipewire by default, how are you using pulseaudio?
i didnt know thanks
Mint is based on testing irc.
I thought so too, and it looks like it used to be, but LMDE is currently based on Debian Stable, specifically LMDE 7 is based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, first released Aug 2025.
FWIW I’ve been running Debian Testing for a few years now and been plenty happy, might get worth trying that.
I exclusively use Debian stable. I ran unstable for a while but in general I never felt like it gave me anything I needed. I also do not recommend running unstable unless you’re very familiar with Debian and are easily able to work out issues. They didn’t come up often, but they did come up.
i last used unstable back in 2007 and it wasn’t that much different that stable; has it gotten worse?
Not at all. I didn’t mean to imply it was plagued with issues, but I did run into them every now and then. Nothing I couldn’t ever resolve either but it’s still not something I’d recommend to a novice unless they are open to potentially breaking their system in a way that may be unknown to them.
i was thankful for those issues; it taught me A LOT about how Linux worked back then.
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