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.

    • superkret
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s more stable than Debian and more simple in design than Arch.
      It basically doesn’t do anything, except run your hardware and software, and that’s all an OS should do.

        • qyron@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          1 year ago

          And pretty hard to achieve, considering breaking Debian is borderline an endeavour.

          • superkret
            3·
            1 year ago

            I use “stable” not in the sense of “doesn’t break”, but in the sense of “doesn’t change its behaviour”.
            Debian is rock solid, but Slackware is the most stable in the sense that it still looks and works pretty much exactly like it did 10-20 years ago.

        • superkret
          1·
          1 year ago

          …is irrelevant due to how Slackware works.
          It installs all dependencies for the entire official repo right from the start.