mint

[Bruce Labitt]

I'm tempted to try out mint.  There are quite a few options.  From what 
I gather, Mint is based on Ubuntu.  So the latest Mint 12 is based on 
Oneiric.  I have Oneiricnow and really think it is a steaming bucket as 
far as productivity.  It really is not made for doing work, it seems to 
be more oriented towards eye-candy.  It seems to take a lot more mouse 
movement and difficult navigation to get anything done.

Anyone have experience with the Mint family?  How is the desktop handled?

Should I take the plunge to LMDE?  I've never run debian before.

I'm not looking for which distro is the best ever, unless folks want to 
have fun.  Just looking for something that is closer to what 10.04 LTS 
was.  I run and maintain that at work for my two servers.  Anything that 
is a bit more modern than 10.04 that 1) runs on older hardware (video 
especially) and can support vlc and myth?

Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome.  It worked well enough.  It 
didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain.

Any insights?
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