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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released (blog.linuxmint.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by danielfgom to c/[email protected]

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LMDE 6 has been officially released. The big deal about this is that it's based on the recently released Debian 12 and also that being based on Debian LMDE is 100% community based.

If you've been disappointed by what the Linux corporations have been doing lately or don't like the all-snap future that Ubuntu has opened, then this is the distro for you.

I'm running it as my daily driver and it works exactly like the regular Mint so you don't lose anything. Clem and team have done a great job, even newbies could use Debian now.

Personally I think LMDE is the future of Linux as Ubuntu goes it's own way, and this is a good thing for Mint and the Linux community. Let's get back to community distros and move away from the corps.

EDIT: LMDE is 64bit only. There is no 32bit option.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Would this be analogous to Endeavor OS for Arch?

[–] danielfgom 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. The Mint team have done all the work that you normally would have to with Debian, to give you a nice stable, fast and full featured desktop system.

Plus they keep Cinnamon up to date over the years. Even though the Debian base will remain the same (apart from any security patches/important updates) you'll always have the latest Cinnamon desktop and utilities from Mint like Timeshift, Warpinator etc

Btw Warpinator works like Airdrop. Install the app on your Android, pair to LMDE and you can easily send and receive files and photos between phone and desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How does warpinator compare to kde connect?

[–] danielfgom 6 points 9 months ago

KDE Connect is more full featured. It can also show phone notifications on Linux, copy clipboard, screen mirror your android to Linux.

Warpinator is literally just to transfer files wirelessly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I would say Mint adds more to Debian than EndeavourOS adds to Arch.

For one thing, Mint has its own DE ( Cinnamon ). You can install this on other distros but it was made for Mint and it is the DE experience out-of-the-box on LMDE.