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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released
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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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I'm not a fan of the immutable distro and I think it goes against the LM philosophy. The user should always have full control over their system.
They are looking at Wayland but for now X works better and with more applications. Reliability is a top priority for LM so they won't just change to Wayland and have users systems break.
I'm sure in a few years they'll have Wayland
You have a lot of control over an immutable system. Linux mint is the noob distro, at least for loots of people. I dont think Cinnamon is really a poweruser desktop, I would see KDE here
It's considered a noob distro but it is full blown Linux after all so it can easily be used by pro's as well as noobs.
I like that it gets out the way and let's you do what you need to do. And it looks good.
After years of distro and DE hopping I understand the appeal of Mint: there's nothing I need to configure, it's reliable, it's fast, lighter than Gnome, more legible than KDE and has useful extras like Warpinator and Timeshift.
I quite like the app choices too and only need to install a handful of apps and only remove 3 of the installed apps: Rhythmbox, Thunderbird and Libre office.