Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but I’ve had a lot of problems in my previous attempts to switch to Linux, so I’d like to create a list of distros to try out, and see what works for me. I’m mostly expecting to be doing basic office work and light gaming via Steam.
The difference is LMDE uses debian and its packages as a base while the “cinnamon” edition uses Ubuntu as a base. I believe they both actually use cinnamon as the DE.
It’s more of a just in case because a lot of the linux community isn’t like Conical lately.
Does that mean that the packages available to LMDE are older?
Potentially I honestly don’t follow it enough. They might use Debian testing or some for newer packages.