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Anyone else want LMDE to become the primary release? (self.linuxmint)

submitted 11 months ago by packetloss to c/[email protected]

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I've always liked Linux Mint. It's been one of my go-to distros for a long time.

Lately though my interest in using it has waned due to the fact it's based on Ubuntu. I'm not a fan of what Canonical is doing with Ubuntu, snap focused, and some of the tracking they've added.

I realize the Linux Mint team does their best to remove this from their fork, but as Ubuntu bakes it in more and more with each release, I'm wondering if it makes sense to drop Ubuntu and focus on LMDE solely instead.

It would also put them closer to the upstream source instead of being a fork of a fork. And at this point I trust distros based on Debian a lot more than distros based on Ubuntu.

What do you think?

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[–] KitchenNo2246 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I'm fine with the Ubuntu base. Canonical does a great job.

I feel Mint takes an already great distro and makes it way better.

I've used LMDE and it works well but keeping a Ubuntu base means we can reference soooo many Ubuntu based help forums.

If Mint is already removing the parts of Ubuntu we don't like then great, let them keep doing it 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree up until the point where snap becomes the default way to install software. Then I'm out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with snap? Honest question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have had multiple experiences where I installed stuff with snap and had just boatloads of problems: crashes, laggy performance, dependency conflicts. In most cases, I was able to fix this by removing the package and then typing "apt install "

When I asked about my problems on reddit or stackoverflow, I got a lot of "Are you using snap? Don't." responses. About a year and a half ago after the third or fourth time I'd ridden this donkey, I said to myself... "Ok, I get it. Fuck this package manager."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I see. That's unfortunate.