LMDE 6 “Faye” released! – The Linux Mint Blog
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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.

  • SparkingEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thinknthis is rather understandable as the user base velocity of Ubuntu over all these years still gives it momentum as the place to base a desktop environment focused distro on. We can all complain about the longterm viability of how things are shaking out over at canonical, but we can’t go back and change history.

    I just use debian stable for my laptop because it ends up that almost every app I actually use on a desktop is either flatpacked or ubiquitous enough to be supported on debian through either a backport or other means. It helps that I do all my serious work on my homeserver though, which funnily enough is Ubuntu server for no good reason (will switch soon, don’t @ me).

    Even if it is not the “first class” distro of the mint project, the fact that it has released 1.0 is a huge step forward. It represents a much more reasonable fallback should canonical get really even nastier.