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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] 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] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never had a use for Linux Mint myself, but I'm still happy to see them cut out the middle man and base it directly off of Debian. Hopefully being closer to the source will result in even more upstream contributions.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh, no. They consider Ubuntu the best APT base out there, and even after some trouble with Canonical, they insist on basing Mint on Ubuntu. This is a plan B, it came precisely after the differences between Mint and Ubuntu were public, but I can't find any source of that episode between Canonical and Clemente Lefebvre.

EDIT: Found one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big thing about being based on Ubuntu is that the community support is the biggest. Any issue you find, you can google, and there's a 99% chance there'll be an answer for Ubuntu which can be applied as-is to Mint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True, but it's not like Ubuntu is this unique distribution with very peculiar software. Most of the time, no matter which distro I use, the best reference to solve any problem is the Arch wiki.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, my bad. I thought LM was going all in on Debian. Well, I'm glad they're at least providing the option then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They want to be able to provide the option should Ubuntu go off the reservation