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LMDE is the future
>>109677877Only with KDE Software ecosystem since everything GTK sucks ass.Otherwise it's OpenSUSE Kalpa that probably will become the GOAT for the ones in the know.
>>109677877This, it's also up to date unlike Mint. No idea why they waste their time trying to remove Ubuntu software when they could just develop LMDE.
>>109678071A good starter point; I used to use Mint.
>>109677986Kope.
>>109677877seeing as linux mint only started paying ubuntu for leeching of ubuntu's repos after ubuntu sent some lawyers, is linux mint still behaving badly and just abusing debian repos?
Mint just works. Imagine being mad at a distro that's easy to install and use
>>109677853I wonder why mintrannies love eating shit and installing compromised isos
>>109678557not a distro when you cannot distribute any packages yourself but just point at ubuntu's repos
All linux distros are indirectly downstream of Fedora, even Arch.
>>109678660Elaborate. I've seen this point before, but I never understood why.
>>109678071Only because the two alternate releases. Next it's gonna be regular Mint that's up to date while LMDE lags behind, then a year later it'll be LMDE again while regular Mint is stuck on the current Ubuntu LTEPretty sure only reason they still use Ubuntu as the base for their main distro is because of some normalfag-oriented things like Driver Manager or Ubuntu stuff like PPAs
>>109682376Realistically, what driver do you need aside from NVIDIA?It's just user space shit now. They can ship libre kernel modules for all.
>>109682376>Debian 13 was released on August 9, 2025, and Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 was released on October 14.>Ubuntu 26.04 was officially released on April 23, 2026>New Mint version still fucking nothing...Fuck ubuntu, they don't waste their time with LMDE to release a new version.
>>109677877LMDE should be ported to Devuan alreadyJust mask libxapp1 and xapps-common, fix the keyring, then it just works. Devuan needs a Gentoo policy on banning down stream slopcode
How are drivers in LMDE? Does it have a convenient one click hardware manager and frequent updates for newer harder? Or is it enshittified?
>>109678567mint works on lower-end pcs.
>>109678567Mint just works
>>109685441For my case, I'm using Devuan as a base which uses the same kernel and drivers as Debian. Debian cherry pickd versions that are proven to not break with a 2 week delay on stable. I say the drivers are decent but AI makes me uncomfortable so it's good other alternatives exist. Gentoo has custom drivers even if harder to install... it's easier than Arch if you follow Immolo's guides instead of Mental Outlaw's. Gentoo wiki is also better... see btrfs on both.
>>109682408Regular Mint also has some QoL things that LMDE lacks, like a GUI for choosing which kernel version you're usingObviously this isn't something you want to give complete newbies access to (and it specifically warns you about it when you open it), but it does makes it easier to roll back to an older kernel if the new one starts breaking shit (without having to touch the scary terminal)Ideally of course LMDE should eventually get all of those features too, but I guess for now they're content with just using the Ubuntu components for that>>109683580Mint 23 was supposed to come out this summer like their major versions usually do, but they decided to delay it until Christmas to finish work on the Wayland version of Cinnamon first
>>109685506This applies to literally any distro that doesn't use KDE or GNOME
>>109685441Pretty sure it gets the same driver updates that regular Mint does, but because there's no convenient "click here to install drivers" button you have to do it yourself through the terminal (along with manually installing any necessary dependencies)I've heard some people complain that doing this is prone to breaking something but it could also be a skill issue on their part
>>109685786Cinnamon is just a GNOME shell with glorified Javascript plugins. It's not any lighter.
