A Quick Look At Linux Mint Debian Edition "Faye" 

It's about time for Mint to go full time with Debian.

Huge thanks to the Linux Mint development team ❤❤❤

IMO Mint should already be all 100% debian based.

I switched to LMDE 6 and my libido increased!

My 9 year old daughter has been running LMDE 5 on her laptop for a year now. It works well with her drawing tablet in Krita and everything. No issues. It's a great OS.

Ubuntu = Canonical. Canonical = 49% Microsoft. Debian = Freedom.

Thanks for this video DT. You touched on all the reasons why Linux Mint is so popular with folks. The distro has had a long tradition giving a new user such a great experience and they are better each time they roll out another desktop. Its fit, finish, and functionality is top=shelf. The only thing about Mint is it isn't geared for low end and very mature desktop computers but still runs circles around Windows11 so even this shouldn't be a deal killer. It is functional, easy, and beautiful. These guys are really pros at developing a great experience!

good thing MINT goes the double path. who says Canonical isn't gonna pull a "REDHAT" on the community...

LMDE = "Linux Mint Doomsday Edition". Historian: "....after Ubuntu was purchased by Microsoft, it became "Linux as a Service", dooming users to monthly subscription fees. But Linux Mint carried on undaunted using Debian as its foundation...."

Not used Mint in years, might be worth another look with this version.

Very nice! I'm going to try that out.

I distro hopping and in the end going back installing LMDE few days ago. it feels like home, everything just work in my old computer(with i3 gen 2). Software centre is getting better with UI and flathub / flatpak install choice. If anyone wants to migrate from windows ask me, I'd recommend LMDE as their first linux distro

Excellent video, gd work always. You make most distros appear desireable. I play learn & catchup with U DT. I look forward to exploring emacs w/U. I have virt manager on PopOS & a proxmox box to play with, thanks Friend. For stability I prefer Debian & Slackware.

Nice info, thanks :)

LMDE 6 on a used Dell E5440. I put in a 120 GB SSD that I had lying around. It is bloody awesome.

One of my favorites

Doesn't LMDE have non-free repos added by default? They should do for drivers as far as I know.

Which vm platform are you using?

I just installed that (V5) for a friend on a enterprise class PC I picked up for peanuts. I think this distro is perfect for older windows users. Its very similar GUI and he feels comfortable using it. I doubt I will get any tech calls which is better for me. However, I'll upgrade him to 6 next time we're hanging out. It is rather dated looking but it just works. I personally don't use it, I prefer Slackware and have been dabbling with the new Debian for fun.

Downloaded it twice and tried to i intall it on dell d430 and each time it comes up with an installation error at the end normal linux mint installs ok

Thanks!

I am dual booting w10 / mint 21.1 was planning to migrate to mint on or before w10 eol. Now, I'm more indecisive than before. Is lmde better, upgrade paths, Wayland etc. F#

A well presented video!👍👍 I actually prefer the Mate desktop and hopefully that will become available with LMDE..

I installed the tool "sudo apt install -y mintupgrade" and I had to omit the word "apt" and type "sudo mintupgrade"

I've come to the conclusion that as of late, MX Linux, AntiX, and Sparky Linux are far superior to most Ubuntu based distros. Now that LMDE is coming into it's own and maturing nicely, it can be added to that list.

i hope the Mint guys will go LMDE only as fast as possible.

If I am to build a linux distribution - only for dt I would implement something that takes the "strong and complicated password" and make it look like its 20 chars long ^^

love your shirt brother. i appreciate your straight forward style and having the drive to cut through very logically . i have recently gone back to my young adulthood and have been distort hopping again. KDE 6 disrupted my dream desktop, had it set up like gnome and had many more option than the one i was imitating. as all of us know in linux, there are frequently many changes that cause us to change,i think i shall finally settle for now to cinnamon gnome.

nice

WELCOME is different DT. No Driver Manager in LMDE.

Another video of Linux installation. Thank you! We don’t have enough of them 😂

One thing I do know about debian.. For some reason, installing the vanilla debian takes longer than other distros. Could be the default settings or mirrors. I bet it was just a small bug on Mint's end with the initial install hang.

Distro shopping once again after the recent demise of ArchLabs. One surprise is that LMDE used significantly less ram (htop), than Endeavour Cinnamon with same hardware and programs. Both, of course, use far more resources than i have become accustomed to with Openbox; but i am liking the look of Cinnamon.

as an avid LMDE fan i hope for more DE editions in the future..not that it matters i use Awesome WM but maybe gnome would be a good choice. or xfce for older machines who knows lets hope ubuntu goes south and we get a debian based LM.

LMDE really doesn't require much maintenace by Mint to be honest, you could build it yourself off the debian distros and just add mint themes and their software store, wouldn't take more than an hour.... Better actually because you could use debian testing for a much newer kernel (or debian unstable to be on the wild side). My only wish is if they would put an XFCE Mint version out for the 32 bit of LMDE, because only the oldest of old machines are going to run a 32 bit distro and XFCE is lighter than Cinnamon

Will you ever show us Obarun linux ? You say you love arch and wm's...

DT, I realize you're running a VM, but the speed of launching applications and installing packages by the installer seems quite slow. If you don't mind, what CPU/storage combo are you using on your VM host, please? Just curious.

Where was the English (uk) in the setup menu???😂

Installed it loving it but can't install dvdstyler

Victoria is from the latest version of Linux Mint 21.2 bro

I feel like I've watched this video before. Wait...

One thing I find annoying about just about every OS out there now, is that in dark mode you have to jump through hoops to make the active window have a brighter background color on the upper border to make it stand out from the background windows. It makes it easy to close the wrong window when faced with numerous open windows that all have a black upper border in the frame. And as for FlatPaks or SNAPS .... in this day and age, with exploits showing up every day, I don't think I want a bunch of applications running their own old libraries that might be compromised, when my OS has already patched them. Basically, I would be moving from a world where I only had to wait on the main OS to patch vulnerabilities to a time when I have to worry about how fast EACH APPLICATION patches the libraries included in their SNAPS of Flatpaks. Generally that is a step backward in security. I am glad that a Debian based Linux Mint is available. But unfortunately, if the software center must be a flatpak, and it runs in the background all the time, you are still partially vulnerable. Hopefully though, that application would be patched along with the OS if an exploit is discovered.

i use mint21.2 in a very 2012 laptop (it's working, I won't change). I think may be try debian 12 with cinnamon, but lmde is what I want, idk. lmde is stable to use? should I divorce mint and go to debian as my new lover?

How to install latest kernel on LMDE ?

I in no way mean to be argumentative, but is there any reason to run LMDE rather than Debian itself?

No driver manager

😄 👍👌...

locks up on my R9 and radeon 6800.......no errors no nuthin....format and find something else

I graduated to Arch with Hyprland, im home

I have installed pop os and i never want to go back 😊

おはようございます

Canonical is veering toward the pay as you go model. Mint is hedging their bets by jumping back towards Debian to keep a free source of their base code available if the worst happens.

I'm going to move LMDE6

HELP - LMDE - I NOTICE HAS NO " DRIVERS UPDATER" THE SOUND IS TRASHED WITHOUT HE RIGHT DRIVERS 😔😔Linux Mint ( Ubuntu Version ) DOES HAVE THIS FEATURE - NO PROBLEMS THERE.

If Linux Mint is that unhappy with Canonical then you would think that moving to Debian would happen quicker.

Ya, but the problem is with Debian it puts out a new version, 12, but includes ancient Apps. Firefox is version 11 which is about 10 generations behind what is out there today. Meh!

Leave testing Resources with Neofetch & Htop

So the only difference really is just the package manager?

The green theme in Mint make it look like a Manjaro spin

5:15 to 5:28 Im unsure of this might be an ussue in LMDE installment...but in Linux Mint... If you are using a Sata SSD as the Linux mint installation drive connected via a USB to Sata adapter cable..... You may have to select" Continue testing" Instead of reboot or restart PC now. I say this because there is a chance you might not get the black screen. Prompt that tells you to quote. Remove installation media and press. Enter to restart PC quote message. And then you're stuck guessing. When is the precise right point to disconnect the drive? As the system has powered off in the middle of the reboot process. Why could this present a small problem? Simple. If you remove the drive to Early and You Try to Boot from the drive, you installed the operating system into, you might get a weird message stating that it cannot boot. And something about no beautiful device found or some other weird message. If you unplug it to light, then you will simply boot back into the live desktop. AK installation drives environment. At least, when selecting continue testing, you can manually power down the computer properly. Either via gooey buttons, mama for the eternal command of ", shut down now,". ;)

I'd love to use Mint but I absolutely hate how the "X" button is not at the top-most right corner. It's a little off to the inside of the window so you have to freaking aim to hit the X button on most windows. I'd love to have a quick chat with whoever thought of this design idea.

It makes more sense for Linux Mint to be based of Debian. Ubuntu is based off Debian. Why not just bypass Ubuntu and keep the chain more pure and make LMDE the default Linux Mint version? I'm using Debian 12 as I'm a little bit more experienced with Linux now. I won't use Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems like a bloated unstable mess.

Snap is devil

I think LMDE 6 just a rolling release version of standard Linux mint cinnamon Ubuntu based variant that is a fixed or point release

I have to say. I wish Mint would start to focus on updating the GUI I love cinnamon but it is dated now. Arc theme rectifies this a bit but comon Mint give us something new. And fractional scaling is awful!

LMDE6 is a nightmare of functions that don't work. these review vids all spend fifteen minutes telling you how to change the color of fonts and themes and NO time telling you what does not work work. This OS has more bugs than dogs have fleas.

In my personal opinion, Linux Mint is looking rather aesthetically dated.

So, basically, literally only significant/noteworthy difference between Ubuntu Mint and Debian Mint is that by using Debian Mint you're not being cucked with snapshit rootkit malware soaked-in-brine rusted barbwire being forced down your throat/up your ass without any lube applied prior whatsoever. And the only "downside" of LMDE in comparison with Ubuntu Mint, is that stable/well-tested/"big number" LMDE builds come out slower/less often than Ubuntu builds, so LMDE "lags behind" the "le muh everything cutting edge" just by a little tiny-weeny bit, when it comes to packaged drivers, supported hardware, and etc. Got it.

Please no more installation process

what a COMPLETE waste of time!