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I've been seriously looking to migrate away from Windows's grip recently and I've laid my eyes on LMDE, as it seems like a simple and stable distro (I'm a total beginner in Linux/Unix). However, I have a laptop with an NVIDIA integrated graphics card, and given NVIDIA's record, I'm worried about compatibility issues given that LMDE is Debian-based. Can anyone shine me some light on this? Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

May I ask why LMDE and not regular Linux Mint? In my experience, it is rock solid and handles nvidia pretty well, too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking about using something Debian-based since I love how reliable it is, though it seems I'll be better off installing regular Linux Mint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

if you are ok with an Ubuntu base (which these days is drifting further from its Debian base) then regular mint is great.

if forced...

  1. Debian stable (or sid if you loathe/love yourself)
  2. lmde
  3. mint
  4. something other than ubuntu
  5. ...
  6. ubuntu

not hating on ubuntu, its just been moving away from where I am at.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Probably gonna go with regular Mint, then. Thank you!