Give me your best reasons:
Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon (and Xfce and MATE) is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.
Linux Mint Debian Edition, LMDE 5 Cinnamon, is based on Debian.
Give me your best reasons to use "standard" Linux Mint and LMDE respectively, or to not use one of them?
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For my 12 year old Dell laptop LM Mate just works! Everything works and there are no drastic changes everytime there's an update.
I started out running Cinnamon but, it became too much for this old beast about 5 years ago.
I also have LM MATE running on an old (~8 years) ARM-based mini-pc. It's the "family computer" that anyone can sit down to to get on the Internet or print something. Again it just works!.
@jchaven Good to hear your positive LM experience. I have KM Xfce on a low performance machine. I have tested MATE, but not seriously but know several who prefer it. My personal strategy (for now) is Cinnamon on better machine and Xfce on low spec machine. I will consider to eventually move to LMDE, or at least install it again for comparison.
