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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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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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[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.