• @Better_Rough_2554@lemmy.mlOP
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    12 years ago

    I chose it because it’s like a community fork of ubuntu, so if I have any problem, since many people use ubuntu, I’ll find a solution easily. And ubuntu is based on debian which is considered very stable and used for most servers.

    • erpichtM
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      12 years ago

      Stripping down a desktop-oriented distro down is probably more effort than it’s worth, so I’d just recommend disabling (when not working on the system) whatever Mint DE that would start-up at boot. Unless disk space is an issue, there’s no reason to do more than this. Otherwise, this endeavor largely becomes a (frustrating) reversion of Mint into the Ubuntu Server.

      If you don’t need software from the Ubuntu repositories, Debian would be the best option for a bloat-free, non-Canonical server experience.

    • @GeekMan_Linux@lemmy.ml
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      02 years ago

      But why not use ubuntu server? Any version of mint ships with a DE out of the box and that will just consume unnunnecessary resources.