![]() That is a bit more tricky, but there is an upgrade tool or else I can reinstall it. I also have two Linux Mint 20.3 installations an other machines to upgrade to 21. And even better, Flatpak software upgrade is now integrated in the update manager. I have more news to discover, but I have already noticed the new mouse pointer graphics as well as new folder icon. The upgrade went really smootly, like a nice summer day walk. After restart I had a few updates to take care of. The upgrade took me around 15-20 minutes and ended with a need to restart the machine. The upgrade is started from the ordinary update manager. After reading installation information, release notes and known issues as well as fresh back up, I was ready for the upgrade. Yesterday I got my time to do the upgrade. On my "best" Linux laptop I have Linux Mint 21 installed. Kontaktinformation Kategori: Walking to LinuxĪ few days before Christmas 2022 came the announcement that Linux Mint 21.1 "Vera" was released. The first note after installation is that on the surface, Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon and LMDE 5 Cinnamon cannot be distinguished from each other. May LMDE be a relevant alternative for me to standard Linux Mint edition as my daily driver? I will do this comparison from my ordinary user perspective, not from an expert perspective (easy deciosion as I am not at all, not at all, an expert). And not at least if it is more difficult, what is different, in managing LMDE from my end user perspective.Furthermore I wonder if more of Flatpak will be needed (especially when up to date software releases are desirable).I intend to install same software on LMDE as I will use on my daily driver as one comparison.the latest releases of both at the time of writing this article). I want to explore, to get a feeling, how LMDE 5 is compared to Linux Mint 21.1 (i.e. I managed to do the installation without messing up anything else on the machine! On the same drive I also have Debian 11 Xfce and Mint 21.1 Cinnamon, and on a separate drive (in the CD bay) Windows 10. Therefore, yesterday on my older Lenovo ThinkPad T430s I replaced my installation of elementary with LMDE 5. ![]() It seems to have done some major improvements and is becoming more mature and more on pair with the standard edition. Again according to Wikipedia, "The Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) uses Debian Stable as the software source base rather than Ubuntu." In parallel with the standard edition, the Linux Mint team also has the LMDE Linux Mint Debian Edition. According to Wikipedia "Ubuntu packages are based on packages from Debian's unstable branch, which are synchronised every six months." Linux Mint "standard edition", which comes with the choice of Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktop environment, is based on Ubuntu. My main Linux Mint Cinnamon machine is a Lenovo ThinkPad T460p. I am slowly migrating from macOS on a macMini that now is so old that it does not make it to latest macOS release. I am aiming for Linux Mint Cinnamon as my daily driver. Mission: Compare LMDE to standard Linux Mint
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