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.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘English
    2•9 months ago

    The question everyone is thinking, but no one will ask: will I be able to install Snap packages on it? Hahahhaha kidding.

    I’ve been eagerly awaiting this release, and will likely replace my OpenSuse with this. I really like OpenSuse, but have some software needs that are only available on dep packages.

    • danielfgomOPEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Hahahaha…good one! 😂

      That’s a good point - that’s the same reason I also prefer to use a Debian based distro, all non repo software is most likely going to be available as a deb.