[LAU] Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

[Simon Wise]

> Not if you apt-pin them and only take what you need. I never had a
> problem with that in the last years from woody to wheezy.

certainly if you are careful and only take what you want from 
debian-multimedia.org, and keep track of what is breaking things, then you can 
make it work.

I personally prefer to have a separate system for those codecs and such, and use 
them as little as possible.

There is another reason to use two boots - Ralf mentioned using wine, and having 
a 64bit system. Wine is much easier on 32bit systems, and it would be a good 
idea to have a 32bit system (set up to be used via chroot perhaps) for wine
so it may as well be something like Mint which includes the stuff that debian 
won't include.

Simon.