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Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released (blog.linuxmint.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by danielfgom@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Desktop Theming: LMDE is gonna look like Mint out of the box, while Debian is gonna look like this
  2. Mint Software repositories and Mint's System tools, like Mint Install or Mint Update, on LMDE
  3. LMDE is installed with Calamares, which is a little more user friendly than Debian's installer

If you're an advanced user there's no big difference overall, but for a new user LMDE is gonna be a little easier to approach

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally the only difference is that regular Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and LMDE is based on Debian.

So LM will use the Ubuntu repo and any additions to the code Ubuntu made, whereas LMDE will use the Debian repos and their code.

At the moment LMDE actually has a newer kernel (6) than LM (5) and newer apps, but that will change with the next version of Linux Mint when it should catch up.

And finally, LMDE is also available in 32bit as well as 64bit, whereas LM is 64bit only.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did not answer the question.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They're pretty much the same to novice users, only differing in packages versions (including the kernel, as OP mentioned).

I am guessing this is kinda the point, to make it as similar as possible, since Linux Mint team is looking to replace its main base to Debian from Ubuntu.