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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released
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Been using mint for a while on my main machine and I'm not keen on doing a reinstall, but the next time I do I'll definitely be looking at Debian edition.
If you don't have Nvidia gpu, then LMDE is better. It is slightly snappier and boots slightly faster.
Oh dang. It sucks to hear that my 10 year old GPU is still poorly supported.
I have a very old Nvidia GPU and am on LMDE5. The official legacy driver works fine for me. Can't speak for the open-source one.
Going to assume that LMDE6 will be similar when I get around to upgrading.
Well, the thing is I don't have Nvidia gpu but it is a general rule since LMDE doesn't ship with the driver manager as the "regular" Mint does.
That's because it doesn't need to use the Ubuntu drivers. I'm pretty sure it's intentional (if a bit less user friendly). I wish distros could come up with a universal(ish) driver app.
Why would anyone support an end of life gpu lmfao
LMDE has proprietary driver repos afaik.
Yes, for NoVideo.