Well, time to try it. Hopefully XFCE runs well; Cinnamon is not to my liking at all.
SteamOS is debian based right? does that mean LMDE will benefit from valve's commits in some ways mint wouldnt have otherwise?
This is 👍 👌 👍
so what would be the difference between LMDE and Debian with cinnamon DE
I would've jumped on this instantly, but I finally landed on a Min21 configuration that works well. New laptop => new hardware => need new nvidia driver => need new kernel.
Which kernel does LMDE currently ship with?
6.1 like Debian 12.
I'll probably give it a go, then, if I need to reinstall.
Backports kernel is available too, currently 6.4.
The question everyone is thinking, but no one will ask: will I be able to install Snap packages on it? Hahahhaha kidding.
I've been eagerly awaiting this release, and will likely replace my OpenSuse with this. I really like OpenSuse, but have some software needs that are only available on dep packages.
Hahahaha...good one! 😂
That's a good point - that's the same reason I also prefer to use a Debian based distro, all non repo software is most likely going to be available as a deb.
Can someone explain to me how it differs from regular Debian Cinnamon? Is it as secure, with updates and all?
I tried the beta and liked it. The only issue I ran into was that the MozillaVPN app wasn't working on debian.
I also had not seen much progress on the Debian version of the app from what I found. I could be wrong as that was my first dip into Debian.
Mullvad is available and I might switch to that at a later time when the motivation strikes me.
I prefer the idea of community driven projects though.
Mullvad works fine on both LMDE and stock mint fwiw
LMDE 6 still has a 32-bit version, probably the last kek
I wonder if I can install this on my late 2011 macbook pro...
Pretty sure you can install it on any Intel based MacBook.
Definitely. I'm assuming that it's a 64bit CPU, but even if it's 32bit they'll have that too
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