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Cool! Is there or will there be any sort of transformation package or script to easily convert an existing Mint installation to LMDE?
There is not and it’s not likely, they are two different distributions that happen to use deb packages. It’s sort of like installing rpm and expecting to upgrade Ubuntu to Fedora. Maybe you could do it if you fight enough, but it’s less effort to just install Fedora.
Ubuntu-based Mint isn’t going anywhere, they just maintain them both.