Le 19.08.2013 14:22, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
For other tastes, there are other good distros too. Bad distros amongthe well known IMO are only those, that don't have a community, such as e.g. Mint. Mint might be ok, but when those people run into issues, theyask at Debian and Ubuntu lists. Regards, Ralf
That reasoning is not too bad, but I think I can remember having seen some Ubuntu users around here ;) On the other hand, when I have a problem, if I am not able to solve it myself ( It is quite rare, tbh, but it is only because I do not work as an admin and so I can spend hours into fixing something or finding a workaround... like how to purge NVIDIA*.run's files after a crash of an installer - was is debian's one or the .run? Don't remember - which could have taken less hours if I had asked here.), it often happen to be solved on [ ubuntu | archlinux | gentoo ] forums/wiki, depending on the problem ( Ubuntu's forum to find a software, archlinux and gentoo to play even more with my system, it seem ), rarely on Debian's ones ( depending on the results ddg gave me ).
So, it would mean that Debian is badder than those 3 distros, which I do not think. There is are quite active mailing lists, but, and this is the stronger point imho, Debian allows more customizations more easily than the 3 other distros I have mentioned ( again: my opinion, do not start a war on those words ).
So, even if I never tried mint, it is probable that it is not a so bad distro because maybe it meet it's users needs. It is a linux distro, and given how small the linux community is, I do not think we should restrain ourselves to a single subcommunity (even if I have only really used Debian, ironically ;) I tried the 3 others I mentioned, but disliked Ubuntu, had archlinux broken to install xorg, and never had a damned working kernel with gentoo... I'll retry gentoo later, with more knowledge.).