Distro testing marathon - LMDE - day 3/3

Once again, the third day came! This was my final day with LMDE installed. In case you've missed the previous two day you can find them here and here.

Hibernate/Suspend

I almost forgot to test Hibernate and Suspend but something came up and I had to leave laptop alone so instead of shutting it down I've clicked the “Hibernate” option. After I came home again and started the laptop… surprise! It booted like nothing happened right from the beginning. Hibernation failed so I've tried once again, same thing. Fortunately, the Suspend function works perfectly.

Beep

A thing that I forgot to tell you earlier was the system bell which annoyed me some time after I had installed LMDE. I had to blacklist pcspkr and fiddle with gnome-alsamixer.

KDE

As I've told you before I've installed KDE just for fun. It's the 4.6.4 version which is nice and it works ok. Still, it seems that the integration isn't very polished but is understandable since LMDE is Gnome centric.

Conclusions

All in all LMDE is a good distro. It's fast, stable, easy with resources, very polished and with a kinda unique menu. The repositories are abundant and fresh with apps ready to be installed. It has its downsides too but they are easily fixable. Hats off for the people behind it who try to make Debian accessible to the common user!