[Motorola Atrix HD] skeevydude:
It might be running pretty good, but I can assure you that it is out-dated for a few packages that you actually do want to run newer versions of. Namely the Desktop Environment...

If you use XFCE Desktop, add this to your apt sources.conf (either /etc/apt/sources.conf or /etc/apt/sources.conf.d/name_of_conf_file). Will update you to the latest XFCE Desktop (recommended and what I used on my last LMDE setup). XFCE 4.10 is much better than the 4.8 Mint ships with. You'll be happy you did this, only issue I ever had was sometimes Thunar would randomly crash during a double or right click..it does that on Manjaro Latest and Ubuntu 13 and Suse from last month as well.

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deb http://packages.siduction.org/xfcenext unstable main
deb-src http://packages.siduction.org/xfcenext unstable main

All the linux crap from here on is just ideas to try\things to do.

Check this link for more Debian Unstable (Sid) repos -- http://packages.siduction.org/ -- just because its called unstable doesn't mean that it is. Ubuntu is based & built from Debian Unstable Snapshots. If ya don't mind getting a little down and dirty from time to time you can go full blown Sid -- breaks and issues can\will occur when major changes happen (like changing from sysvinit to systemd...that was "fun") but as long as you read the apt news you'll be fine.

You can also check out Snow Linux. Snow Repos are fully compatible with Debian Stable, but as much with Mint -- Branding packages can conflict but its not a big deal and all can be force installed with no ill effect. Its an easy way to use an up-to-date E17 on Debian Desktops. Seriously, its a ***** to find an updated E17 for Debian and this is the easiest and best way I've found next to compiling the damn thing myself.

You can also try using the Liquorix Kernel. Changing from standard Deb kernel to the Liquorix one netted an extra 3-5 fps in x264 encodes....doesn't sound like much, but 8fps to around 12fps is.

Personally, I'm waiting on the Razor-QT project to mature so I can use that as my daily desktop environment. I just find that on a regular basis I use more QT apps over GTK and that most of my GTK apps have QT counterparts, but not vice-a-versa, so a QT desktop that's not KDE would be great....K is just to damn bloated for me with tons of crap I don't need. Just give me the bare minimum and I'll be happy....well, that isn't minimal like LXDE...that's just too minimal to even be useful, might as well start with a Flux/Openbox base and go from there over LXDE...All that LX crap said, I haven't ran it in a year and a half now so it might not be as crappy now (my opinion, my lawn), but like the Ubuntu update 8.10 to 9.04 to 9.10, it left a sour taste in my mouth that I can't seem to forget.

Got Pac compiling for 45 minutes using linaro O3 and gcc4.7. Still nowhere near done, I realize now that I'm gonna have to merge EVERY CM REPO PAC USES WITH THE LINARO COUNTERPART...(did the big boy called frameworks/base yesterday, much easier than I expected)...Then I just gotta swap out the AOSP repos for the Linaro ones....a simple change of remotes in the manifest :p.

I'll make it a point to update our dev-team forks sometime today.

//I sure can ramble on in the mornings :cool: