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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] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm excited to give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is 👍 👌 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SteamOS is debian based right? does that mean LMDE will benefit from valve's commits in some ways mint wouldnt have otherwise?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

so what would be the difference between LMDE and Debian with cinnamon DE

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mullvad works fine on both LMDE and stock mint fwiw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can someone explain to me how it differs from regular Debian Cinnamon? Is it as secure, with updates and all?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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

I wonder if I can install this on my late 2011 macbook pro...

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

Pretty sure you can install it on any Intel based MacBook.

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

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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