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Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta
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Originally posted by user1 View Post
If you talk about the regular Ubuntu desktop, then I'm not sure that'll happen. It's still a regular consumer distro unlike RHEL, which is for specific purpose and which was always a paid product. I think what is way more likely to happen is that someday Canonical will simply abandon the Debian base for Ubuntu because of Ubuntu's continued Snapisation. Have you heard about the Ubuntu Core desktop that's going to be released next year? It's an basically an immutable Ubuntu only with Snaps.
Additionally, consumer distro doesn't necessarily mean free (even in the non-existing Linux desktop market because of you look at RHEL9.2, it's the most polished Gnome-shell installation you can find) especially with Canonical's NIH syndrome which they might decided to capitalize on monetizing at some point and this was a concern after the Red Hat fiasco.
This is of course all speculation. Ubuntu might remain free forever.Last edited by ClosedSource; 13 September 2023, 09:52 AM.
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Originally posted by Flaburgan View Post
Do you have sources for this, or is it just your feeling?
At least compared to the years before when Linux Mint was the king of recommendations.
I haven't kept track of how many recomendations got each distro to provide actual numbers.
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Originally posted by Danny3 View PostWhat's the point of this?
What changes it does on top of Debian?
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
The whole point of LMDE is to be Mint's backup plan in case Ubuntu ceases to exist.
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Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
I've just seen in the past few years more people recommending Nobara, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian than Linux Mint.
At least compared to the years before when Linux Mint was the king of recommendations.
I haven't kept track of how many recomendations got each distro to provide actual numbers.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
And what if Debian also ceases to exist? I know, slim chance, but I don't see Ubuntu going anywhere in the next few decades either. Debian has the same chance of disappearing and if they both do, then where are they going to go? Time for LMOE and LMAE as well?
Un-immute? De-immute? Make mutable? I don't know the proper term for that.
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Originally posted by piorunz View Post
Linux Mint it too late to the party, MX Linux didn't wait and just did it, they are based purely on Debian, and are first on Distrowatch. Ubuntu and it's derivatives are slowly fading away.
On top of that, MX Linux does not play nice with Windows in a dual boot environment. Every time I have tried to set up a Windows/MX Linux dual boot, both OSes were left unbootable with a grub error.
Linux Mint in general, for me at least, is too unstable, it tends to break, whether it's the Ubuntu or the Debian variant.Last edited by sophisticles; 14 September 2023, 10:29 PM.
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
MX Linux is nice, I like what they do with their MX Tools but it only offers XFCE and KDE, while I hate both of those and only use Mate. If you attempt to install Mate on either variant both DE's break and the whole distro is effectively useless.
On top of that, MX Linux does not play nice with Windows in a dual boot environment. Every time I have tried to set up a Windows/MX Linux dual boot, both OSes were left unbootable with a grub error.
Linux Mint in general, for me at least, is too unstable, it tends to break, whether it's the Ubuntu or the Debian variant.
Also, if you are unhappy with MX or Mint stability, just use pure Debian. It works.
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