I use Mint Cinnamon as my daily driver, but after putting Debian KDE on my spare laptop (I quite like it), it's got me wondering whether or not Mint LDME might be a good idea. What are some good reasons to switch, what are the major differences with standard Mint? I'm still a noob so completely retarded with this shit.
Debian based = old packages
>>106485731Never touch anything GTKAlso, linux desktop is a security nightmare.At least install secure blue or use their modifications on your linux install.
>>106485768Begone.>>106485731Mint Debian is probably where Mint will migrate to once Canonical makes Ubuntu proprietary with their cuck licensed coreutils, but for now its "more solid" but also less maintained and less up to date, as it is the second class citizen.
>>106485768based secureblue knower
>>106485795>cluelessBegone
>>106485731there's no reason to switch from regular mint to LMDE, if it already does what you want
There are so many reasons to choose Mintthe Debian edition is not itif you're so desperate to be inconvenienced when it comes time to install your nvidia drivers
does linux still have the weird bugs like dpi scaling not working, your desktop showing before you unlock your screen or bluetooth/fingerprint drivers bugging out constantly?
forgot to finishif you're so desperate to be inconvenienced and out of date just use regular Debian with Cinnamon
>>106485731There's no good technical reasons or advantages in using LMDE over Mint Cinnamon for now, unless you're somehow politically motivated.
>>106485731As far as I understand it misses some functionalities compared to regular Mint. For example the is no GUI tool to install/update hardware drivers, and the SW update manager cannot update the kernel. Overall it is more of a proof of concept rather than a full-blown distro like regular Mint.I'm a linux noob so take what I wrote with a grain of salt, I might have misunderstood it all.Anyway it's working on my end, I have no complaints (other than the fact that there are too many ways to install things, and it is very confusign; but that is a linux thing).
>>106485817>OP asks about Mint Ubuntu/Debian>"Use literal who distro instead"Whats the point of you existing in this thread?
>>106485856Yeah, as a noob, installing the nvidia driver was the most arcane thing I had to do (had to use the terminal).The driver it installs by default is basically not using the GPU acceleration at all.
>>106485731I went from Mint to Fedora and loved it, but then I had to swap to Ubuntu because Jellyfin
>>106485731I never tried lmde myself, but I assume there won't be much of a difference except some older versions for various packages. As a regular user you probably wont even notice. I plan to try it if I ever have to reinstall (but nothing ever breaks so there's no need to reinstall in the first place). Also, I think, you will have more luck getting actual answers in the Mint forums. Too many retards here.
OP here. Thanks for the replies, anons. You've satiated my curiosity and I'm just going to stuck with regular Mint instead (at least for now).>>106485858I dunno, but it seems fine for me just being a noobtard with it, except my bluetooth phones no longer auto-pause when I remove them from my head (all other functions work fine) but I can still double tap to pause anyway. I've not tried fingerprint though. >>106485984I tried to install Fedora after Mint in multiboot but couldn't get GRUB to recognise the Fedora installation, maybe because of btrfs, I dunno.
>>106486325Maybe, updating grub on fedora is a bit weird compared to what we're used to.
