@leadore I had decided to go for Mint Cinnamon on this primary machine. But I like Debian and their philosophy, and wondering what Ubuntu will do with deb vs Snap packages, so I thought I wanted to give LMDE a try. As I recall, Ubuntu is based on Debian (forgot the name) while LMDE is based on Debian Stable. I assume I may have somewhat older sw versions of deb from Debian compared to Ubuntu, esp later when Debian gets older, but I'll see and if it becomes any problem. 2/2