Too bad LMDE is based on Sid. Some stuff can break on occasion.
I few months ago I helped an older lady at a repair café to replace her Win10 with LMDE (because that’s what she wanted). Installed just fine but didn’t boot after reboot. Installed LMDE 2 or 3 additional times, to make sure I didn’t overlook something. Same result.
I have never had a problem with LMDE. My mother has been using it for about a year now. I used to have to come solve Windows problems for her a couple times a year but she had never asked me for any help with LMDE.
It’s unlikely that an already properly installed bootloader just breaks. The base is Sid, Debian Unstable.
Just because breakage doesn’t happen all the time, there is still a higher than average chance. Sid is Debian’s beta test branch, not a rolling release distribution. It just wasn’t the right choice for the lady at the repair cafe.
I was corrected that LMDE is not based on Sid. I redact that part of my comments. The experience I had installing LMDE on a lady’s laptop at a repair cafe was as described, though.
Too bad LMDE is based on Sid. Some stuff can break on occasion.I few months ago I helped an older lady at a repair café to replace her Win10 with LMDE (because that’s what she wanted). Installed just fine but didn’t boot after reboot. Installed LMDE 2 or 3 additional times, to make sure I didn’t overlook something. Same result.
Then installed Fedora and it just worked.
LMDE is not based on Sid, it’s based on Debian Stable. LMDE 7 is currently based on Debian 13 Trixie. You sure you had the right ISO?
Oh wow, you’re right. Did that change at some point and I just didn’t pay attention? My bad!
I had the correct ISO and the experience with the lady’s notebook was as described. Maybe the notebook needed newer kernel code?
I have never had a problem with LMDE. My mother has been using it for about a year now. I used to have to come solve Windows problems for her a couple times a year but she had never asked me for any help with LMDE.
It’s unlikely that an already properly installed bootloader just breaks.
The base is Sid, Debian Unstable.Just because breakage doesn’t happen all the time, there is still a higher than average chance. Sid is Debian’s beta test branch, not a rolling release distribution.It just wasn’t the right choice for the lady at the repair cafe.I was corrected that LMDE is not based on Sid. I redact that part of my comments. The experience I had installing LMDE on a lady’s laptop at a repair cafe was as described, though.