![]() Personally I cannot see the point of LMDE for "normal" users. Early August Mint 21 was released and I downloaded and installed the Mate version wondering if it had sorted the minor issues I was having with Ubuntu. It worked great except for the fact occasionally on boot up I got messages that various things had not loaded correctly (but even then it worked fine). ![]() Could not get any hints on the problem so gave up.ĭid some Distro hopping and eventually for some unknown reason tried Ubuntu 22.04 Mate. It locked up every time I tried to open Libre Office and Chromium, 2 vital apps. Did a fresh install and it was useless form the start. But about a month after LMDE 5 was released it was announced that LMDE 4 would go EOL in August and users should consider upgrading. It worked very well and even when LMDE 5 came out initially I felt no desire to upgrade. Needed a Linux to replace Win 10 which was going EOL in December 2022.Īfter trying Ubuntu 21.10 (the Gnome version) and finding it truly horrid I had no desire to jump onto a version of Mint that was based on Ubuntu. For mainstream users and newcomers to LInux, gaming is coming to mind first. So there are certain workflows, usages that still benefit from Ubuntu's way of doing things and MInt is "ubuntu done right". This has been mitigated by flatpak and other forms of distro-agnostic package management but alternatives may come with caveats. Lots of ubuntu-specific PPAs out there not compatible with Debian. Ubuntu has an edge over Debian and its "backports" "Driver manager" is an Ubuntu thing, still absent on Debian. Ubuntu with its hardware enablement stack allows periodically updates during the lifetime of an LTS to support newer hardware. I myself could switch to LMDE anytime, I have both installed on different comps and both work well for me.īut objectively speaking, main Mint based on Ubuntu LTS still has some advantages. You can imagine that we had this debate, LMDE vs main Mint, many times before.
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