I'm still using Mint 9 on my desktops, and will probably keep it for a while longer.

It's sometimes a little tedious when its repos don't provide stuff included in the newest versions. I'm keen to try LibreOffice in place of OpenOffice - and plan to have a go at this shortly.

Using Remastersys, it took about forty-five minutes to create a backup DVD allowing me to simply reinstall all my current programs (and updates, I think), should I mess up.

I'm typing from the resulting live DVD now.

A jolly useful little program, that, and it saved me a lot of time after a bit of a blunder not long ago.

Also makes it easy to take a new laptop, for instance, and install an up to date copy of what's on one's desktop - programs and all.

(There is also provision to save data, but I assume that would involve saving an iso to a suitably large hard drive. One of the advantages of separate / and /home partitions - 'tho obviously, I still back up anything serious before playing around.)

Doubtless be back later with tales of woe about trying to replace OOo with LibreOffice.