Tex has the best distro overviews on TH-cam. Always informative, straight to the point, and tends to focus on the postives. I have a request: Spiral Linux vs LMDE :)
I am currently migrating to LMDE6 from Mint. I like the stability of Debian 12. And the Mint additions are superb. I no longer feel comfortable with depending on Ubuntu. LMDE6 is greatness.
I use Mint 23 and absolutely love it. What do you find better or different with LDME in comparison, to an average user like me that generally avoids the terminal whenever possible?
I’ve deployed LMDE on all my client desktops. The end users love the Cinnamon desktop, and management is delighted at how much desktop support costs have dropped since transitioning away from Ubuntu. I’ve had several users tell me they liked LMDE so much they’re now using it on their home PCs and laptops.
@@nildesperandum2034 Difficult to say which one is better, they are different. Plasma has become too heavy, Cinnamon is lighter, so I still use Plasma on my destop, and Cinnamon on my laptop
@@nildesperandum2034 Hi, this is not a matter of RAM usage. It is a matter of CPU and GPU usages. Actually I really love Plasma (easy to use, highly customizable, many features out of the box, ...). But it is getting slow when running on old platforms such like my desktop and laptops. On my Kubuntu desktop (GK208B GeForce GT 710 + Plasma 5.24), Plasma runs well only if I disable all the desktop animations (desktop effects + compositor). This is why I still keep it. But on my laptops, Plasma is definitely too sluggish and I can afford only an light desktop such as Xfce or Cinnamon.
I recently installed the 32 bit version of LMDE on two very old laptops and I was pleasantly surprised and how well it worked. Good to see that some Linux distros are still abiding by the original premise of Linux running on any computer.
I still run arch on my laptop but i run lmde 6 on my pc. loving the stability and the flatpacks really work well. thanx to the linux mint team. lmde has always had a special place for me.
I'm a huge fan of the Mint project, it's not for me personally, but when I have to recomend a distro to a new Linux user coming from Windows, that's what I recomend them. I know it's a solid, reliable a stable experience, and it just works
I started on MINT and have gone through about a hundred other distros and have come full circle back to MINT-- but I prefer the debian base- so LMDE6 is GREAT... just loving it... I even am able to do without my auto- tiling (the pop style auto- tiling NOT that keybanging bu....it!!!) and just LOVE it- it's rock solid , fast- and just great.
Great video. I'm going to put LMDE on my backup laptop. I'll keep Nobara on my gaming PC for now, but I don't mind having a faster-moving distro on that machine. Mint always has a special place in my heart. It was my main distro for years before I moved to others.
LMDE is currently running my main system as well. I love cinnamon and then getting qemu/kvm running is great! I had a few crashes when running all my VM's but then increased the DE memory limit and things have been running pretty smooth ever since!
@@Netbase2000 with LMDE edition you have to manually install GPU drivers as i did myself with sudo apt install..... there are instructions on the net, easy
Good stuff. These videos are always quality. I left Windows for Mint in 2014 and used nothing else until a few years ago when I discovered window managers. Still, I recommended Debian Cinammon for new users coming from Windows until LMDE could get it's development together, and boy did has it come together quickly. After watching this, I know I can comfortably recommend LMDE at this point.
Another excellent, extremely well produced; and thought out synopsis of LMDE.These videos, are hands down the most informative videos I have seen ,in the TH-cam Linux verse. Well done to all involved. I will install LMDE on my Samsung NP-R519,but will stick to MX Linux KDE,on my main PC.
Watching you from Linux Mint, and have tried out LMDE over several iterations. It IS an excellent Plan B, with version 6 currently running on my test-bed system. Cannot see a reason to be replacing Mint / Cinnamon on our daily drivers at this point, but it is nice to know I could if necessary.
Honestly Linux Mint's seriousness in using Debian will be their saving grace for the future. They could rub shoulders with Ubuntu. Never used Linux Mint cause I don't care for Ubuntu derivatives. LM will gain my serious respect if they permanently switched to Debian.
I have been using LMDE 6 for almost a year now. It's great! It's stable and feels solid. I like Cinnamon but I think I'm going to install KDE just to see how it looks and feels on LMDE.
I had been testing Debian 12 and liked it. But seriously missed the Linux Mint additions. When LMDE6 came out I installed it on one of my computers. It was so good I upgraded a second one to LMDE6. It combines the best of Debian with the outstanding Mint additions which Debian 12 didn't have. LMDE6 is my go-to now. Very happy with it.
Hey, ordered myself a mini pc to dive into the linux world. I am new to linux and consider myself ok when troubleshooting tech issues. Was leaning towards Debian, but do you think i should go with mint debian? if so, why is that ?
@@Masta_E I recently saw a tech article where they measured the performance of gaming in Steam on Windows Vs Linux. Linux performance was 15% better .....
@@MrOrtmeier I game on Linux, but I use Arch or EndeavorOS. I have found the distros that are more up to date work so much better for gaming. The only time I boot into windows is for bf2042 if some friends or online, or destiny 2. The rest have been gtg on Linux.
I absolutely recommend Mint and Cinnamon. Of all the distros, Mint is both flexible and easy. I recently tried LMDE because, like others, I'd like to leave Ubuntu behind. I'm wondering if the device drivers included in Debian are not as extensive as Ubuntu. I ran into issues with both WiFi and Bluetooth on LMDE. They worked, but not consistently. I'd really like LMDE to be my go-to distro.
LMDE is there in case if Ubuntu fucks everything up. Many people love it. I'm using regular Mint MATE, but I'm thinking about trying LMDE to see how different it is from Ubuntu-based Mint.
I’ve switched from Ubuntu to LMDE 6, shortly after LMDE 6 was released. Had multiple issues within Ubuntu, which I manually resolved. Also didn’t like the direction Ubuntu is going. Was super surprised how easy LMDE 6 is to use. Stability is noticeable there and no more snap ! Everything works out of the box ! 👌🏼💪🏼 Love flatpack which means you’ll always be up to date.
I tested out LMDE on a virtual machine and I shared the enthousiasme One issue I found is that hardware support is not as good as under Ubuntu based Mint. While the latter worked out of the box, using add driver, with WiFi on my old MacBook, with LMDE there was no way to get the WiFi working. With another system the video card was not recognised so it did not start up at all. Again with Ubuntu based mint it started without issue.
@@fransheitkamp That is weird indeed. In Ubuntu, 49" ultra wide is not supported by default. Also needed to install external drivers to even make use of my docking station. With LMDE 6 I haven't installed any external drivers so far, or they were installed automatically. Works great ! Have you tried bare metal installations yet?
@@insanity83NL what is meant, is ubuntus amount of drivers available, aswell as the HWE stack. this does not apply to debian (yet?), so depending on how new your hardware is, it may fail.
THANK YOU!!! I gave up on trying to get ubuntu to access shared folders on my windows machines. And the ubuntu start menu is just awful. I installed LMDE and it just works the way it's supposed to work. I can access windows shared folders and the start menu is beautiful. I love the Cinnamon desktop.
I'm tempted to give LMDE a try. I've been using Debian 12 for the last few months and am comfortable and familiar with it. I think that switched to LMDE would be pretty easy since for anyone who knows how to add users to the sudo list and install the proprietary nvidia drivers in Debian. I hope that LMDE uses the PipeWire sound system, as it has a lot of cool tricks like automatically switching my external dac to match the sample rate of the source material.
I have tested a bunch of distorts, Debian, Arch, Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu, PopOs, MX, Zorin, and many, many, more, all popular distorts. But only Mint (and finally LMDE) is the only one that just works out of the box and cause almost no issues.
Same experience here. I read so many reviews of the Top 10 distros. ElementaryOS, Pop_OS!, Zorin always made the list. Compared to Mint, they are all under-featured and difficult to use.
Excellent video! I've been a Linux Mint user since Ubuntu first went to the Unity desktop a long time ago. With LMDE 6, it looks like it might be time to slide over to it. As you used LMDE 6 for this review, did you lose anything going from Mint 21.x to LMDE 6?
I'd love to try this out, especially for gaming! I've been using Mint on one of my laptops and I love it, but I would eventually like to transition from Windows to LMDE on my desktop PC! As long as I can play about 95% of my games, I'd be happy.
If you have an AMD, go for it. If you have an NVidia, just get Linux Mint 22, as it has a Driver Manager built in. Or get Debian. It's as simple as adding "contrib" and "non-free" to the Sources list, running sudo apt update and then running one simple command to install and build the drivers.
Great video! I see what looks like a Surface making an appearance. I have a Surface Pro 6 (8gb i5 with the keyboard and the pen if I ever remember where I put it) that doesn’t get much use and I’d like to try out modern Linux. Would you recommend LMDE for that device?
There are about 37 distros too many. Decades now and desktop is apparently still too useful for the Linux crowd to bother mastering... I'm tired of Linux being a superior OS for people who love spending all of their time on operating systems... It's time it became a superior OS for people who DONT want to spend their lives fixated on their environment.
@pa-dn1vh The problem is mac and ms are the same animal. They are both telemetry machines, for example iOS records and transmits every aspect of your usage, including when you open an app, when you close it, etc... There are likely millions of people who would make the switch assuming linux could ever pull its head out of its ass and make desktop something workable.
@@nvrmind1497 Simply running linux requires you to obsess over your environment. Perhaps it may not feel that way not if you have years of running headless and you're heavy into the os but we are not talking about that. We are talking about potentially millions of users from mac and windows that want a desktop environment that simply works and to this date, there is not one example of linux that satisfies this desire. Perhaps from your perspective there is, but we're talking about those who exclusively exist within desktop and from their own, there is not.
looks very clean, im currently on Garuda Linux and it's been amazing, has similar clean windows like interface and themes, ill keep an eye on LMDE though.
I like that LMDE doesn't have the Mint cinnamon driver manager, which I could never get to work. The Nvidia driver from the repository works flawlessly and doesn't bork my system like driver manager does.
I just bought your online course, and I have two questions for you. First, I have the latest lmde-6-cinnimon-64bit download, as well as Rufus to create a bootable USB drive for LMDE. Should I format the drive to FAT32, or NTFS??? Second, my hearing is impaired, and I often have to rely on the CC feature here on TH-cam, thank you for enabling it here on your channel. Is there a way for you to enable CC on your instructional videos??? Thank you in advance!!!!
Thank you for this video it was very informative. I just switche both my laptop and my home pc to this version of Linux Mint. All I have to say is the performace is off the chart better.
Sir, please make a vid/tutorial for lmde6 btrfs install. I tried following the tutorial for lmde5 for btrfs install, but mounting the sda3 to the /target directory just does not work and gives error of wrong fs type /target. Please help.
It also takes only 2 lines of terminal code to completely replace Cinnamon with Mate, for those (like me) who prefer the same look but with fewer bells and whistles., I personally would be in heaven if they would add Moksha desktop to LMDE.
You mentioned you have a dedicated Linux system/distribution for gaming… is that also lmde 6 in your video here, or do you use a different one currently?
lmde and mint both 2nd favorites. i like endeavour os nothing extra comes out of the box and i can just flatpak what i need without deleting things and changing the desktop environment
LMDE 6 does not work with the ryzen 7 5950x a newer version of debian is require to have the correct microcode to support that processor. Thats why I had to go back to mint 21. 2.
Quick question ... it may sound stupid but it is worth it to ask. Is it possible to move from Mint to LMDE without having to reinstall my machine and the software installed on it. I am guessing the answer is no but maybe someone tried already.
Thank you for the optimistic review. I've been using LMDE since version 2 and have always been impressed with it's performance, on anything. I run it on a Chromebook as well! I'm surprised how it's typically seen; half see it as 'bleeding edge' while the other half say it's 'good for newbies' (what?). I started on Ubuntu and it was kindas buggy and uglier at the time but I didn't want a 'Newbie Mint' and didn't like it at the time either. I jumped into LMDE and have the best of all worlds and have had it as daily driver on multiple systems for years. I currently tried LMDE6 on a Dell XPS touchscreen tablet - it worked immediately and blows away the default Windows 8!
Install Windows and then Install LMDE, which will ask you if you want to manually partition, erase your entire drive or if you want to make space for LMDE. You can't install LMDE and then Windows, as Windows would kill your entire drive for itself.
@13 minutes and 54 seconds you say you put the link on how to install Nvidia drivers in the description below the video, but it's not there. Would you please put it there.
Have you solved this? As I have 2021 gaming laptop (not high perf) on i5 and GTX1650 and struggled a bit after installation of LMDE5-> upgrade to LMDE6. Now its good.
I've been using Peppermint for years as prime for multiple pc. What's the catch in this? I mean bcs everything works on Pepper and this is just one like it.
I love mint since 2014, everything just works, even had the best gaming experience over "gaming focused" distros like, garuda, regata, nubara, popos. Mint more games work and without doing anything extra. Btw, can get much games to work on Garuda gaming edition, distro look awesome thou
I downloaded the ISO and tried to get it to run under Windows 10 HyperV VMcreate just to see if it was worth the hype. The ISO didn't even get passed the first black screen looking for some PXE network driver or whatever. Do Linux devs even test their software before they roll it out the door? Don't tell me an operating system is great if the installer can't even boot in a virtual machine.
I mostly use Debian, I've used LMDE too and mostly it's good, I enjoyed it, but, it's basically just Debian with flatpaks already configured and few extra tools installed. But I'd still use it even though I'm not a big cinnamon fan
I don't see a 'link in the description below' for installing nVidia drivers. I did, however, use Synaptic to do it, and while it appears to have worked, LizardByte's Sunshine Streamer app does not detect my RTX-3080, and instead falls back to using a software H.264 encoder. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I use Blender and rely heavily on Nvidia GPUs for my work but never could get them work in any of the Debian based distros despite I wanted to switch onto it. This is the reason I have to stick with Ubuntu based distros where Mint has been my choice of OS on my primary workstations due to it's rock solid stability.
@@smartartcreations Good to know, thanks. I didn't wait long to see if someone would provide a solution to my Sunshine streamer problem. Instead, I just wiped my LMDE 6 installation and put 'regular' Mint Cinnamon on it, because it works perfectly with my GPU.
I was reluctant to move from Mint to LMDE thinking it was going to be less user-friendly. But, once LMDE 6.0 was released and I saw some good reviews, I thought of trying it. It seems faster and less bulky with the same user interface. Now, I won't go back from LMDE to Mint(Ubuntu).
I know that I can update the Debian core via /etc/apt/sources.list to testing or even unstable. But is that advisable? Will it work with the Mint additions? Or should I stay with Debian testing + cinnamon?
I love it that they are evolving and relying on something better like Debian instead of relying on the infamous Ubuntu! You know what they say, never put all of your eggs in one basket!
Tex.... I simply love LMDE-6..... after many, many other distro installs, LMDE-6 was the only one that installed w/out any hiccups, burps or crashes....! The others..... they couldn't find my Wifi card or my Wifi dongle plugged into the USB port.....! LMDE-6 is on one 1 TB 2.5" 5400 RPM HDD and the 1 TB 2.5" 5400 RPM HDD has MX-Linux running on it..! W/a dual-boot system I choose which one I want to work on...... and lately that's been LMDE-6.....! Those two being on a DELL Latitude E6540 machine I added 12 GB of sdRAM to make 16 GB Total and an Intel i7-4810 quad core CPU w/8 Threads it screams all day long at 2.80 GHz..... and doesn't even get warm....! Yesterday I dismantled the whole Laptop as the "Power On" button that sits flush with the palm rest all around the keyboard area, had fell down into the innards of the case. I had to use a jewelers tiny screw driver to maneuver the button into position, then lightly push down, to even turn the Laptop ON...! That got old really fast...! The plastic Power On button was glued to the underside of the Palm rest but the 2 thin plastic pins were both broken..! I just laid the whole thing on its back and dropped some small dabs of Super Glue on each where they had been broken from, let it dry .... and all was good, then reassembled the Laptop..! It took a couple of hours, all toll... Now i just barely touch and press it lightly till the light comes on.... and my finger is off it.....! =)
as a windows user willing to swtich to linux, i'm surprised most linux user wonder why people don't quit with windows. In 3 months it's like the twentieth distro i come across labeled as "mindblowing", "best distro ever" and so on. the amount of options is overwhelming at best.
It doesnt work well on an HP Pavillion, had too many keyboard issues. if I close my lid and reopen some times the keyboard will not come back and I am forced to reboot. their are other issues too, but you will find out if you want.
I have LMDE6 on my main desktop, my other desktop has Debian 12 Cinnamon, my Mini PC has Debian 12 Cinnamon, as well as on my modded old Chromebook. Flatpack is what got me off the Ubuntu based Mint Cinnamon, plus the buntu based Mint cinnamon would only see my soundcard, Audigy Soundblaster FX 7.1 as stereo only, but LMDE6 saw it right, so it was bye bye buntu based Mint. I've been using Mint since 2011, as it says on my Mint forum ID date I joined. Switching to Debian base has had me start learning again, and it's not difficult, just different, like video and wireless drivers, I got it down now for Debian/LMDE6 :)
Hi Lee, I upgraded to LM 21.3 , did a fresh install. When I plugged all my accessories in, it just worked. I have been on Mint since 2017/2018... and there were always problems getting the accessories sorted out. My experience was /is with 21.3, it was all painless. I am looking forward to trying out LMDE6 and Debian 12 on my other PC's. Oh, one thing with LM 21.3..... if anything doesn't work, get rid of the 5.15 series kernel and install the 6.x (I am currently 6.5) and it will definitely work. I have one of the "latest and greatest" PCs, so the old kernel had a problem with some hardware... the new kernel had no issues at all. SO think about the age of the PC, will the std kernel work, or should you upgrade to new kernels... that can be selected by installing 'EDGE", or manually later. Best of luck....
The way thing are going LMDE may set up new trend among distros. Most ubuntu derivatives might eiher switch over completely to debian as base or have both but in this case odds are in favour of LMDE killing off ubuntu based Mint completely. I am gonna switch over to linux but my distro of choice will be Debian because i feel comfortable using it and if i decide to selfhost servers i can build everthing on top of debian which makes updating everything much easier. Honestly if debain derivatives kill off all ubuntu derivatives by replacing(meaning same distro but different base) them i wouldn't be surprised because most are community focused but ubuntu while still popular isn't so comunity focused as it once was.
I am a fan of Mint And I also liked LMDE Version of Mint I currently have Mint 21 on my notebook I had to flash the BIOS to install because it was an Android version in other words a cheap lap top...lol!! as far as using Linux on a PC...Well as soon as Creative and Linux decide to play nice unfortunately I am stuck with phukn Winblows in order to enjoy 5.1 surround on my stupidly expensive audio system (not really made for a PC) that I have managed to cobble together an amazing all in one. Trust me I have been trying to switch to Linux since 1999 and so far there has always been something that is too much time nd work to deal with. OK Bring on the Flaming!!
It's kinda ironic, but one of the big reasons Cinnamon is so popular is because it's where Windows should be right now, but M$ prefers to discard yesterday's user experience rather than perfect it.
Tex has the best distro overviews on TH-cam. Always informative, straight to the point, and tends to focus on the postives.
I have a request: Spiral Linux vs LMDE :)
I have SPIRAL on mine as a backup to LMDE6-- or just for when I want a little "difference"-- and yes- it's GREAT.. love it..
Spiral Linux here
@@janiceadriana6830 I have Spiral too-- running it dual boot with SPARKY.. (which is a bit FASTER still).
I am a linux Mint for a while now , and i love this distro, it is so easy to use and the comunity is awesome. Love your videos. keep up the good work
I am currently migrating to LMDE6 from Mint. I like the stability of Debian 12. And the Mint additions are superb. I no longer feel comfortable with depending on Ubuntu. LMDE6 is greatness.
My first distro since January 2024
I use Mint 23 and absolutely love it. What do you find better or different with LDME in comparison, to an average user like me that generally avoids the terminal whenever possible?
Ubuntu design philosophy has been changing for the worst
agreed.
I’ve deployed LMDE on all my client desktops. The end users love the Cinnamon desktop, and management is delighted at how much desktop support costs have dropped since transitioning away from Ubuntu. I’ve had several users tell me they liked LMDE so much they’re now using it on their home PCs and laptops.
That's a real big X man. So much X.
KDE İS MUCH BETTER
@@nildesperandum2034 Difficult to say which one is better, they are different. Plasma has become too heavy, Cinnamon is lighter, so I still use Plasma on my destop, and Cinnamon on my laptop
@@Gilles-w9h THX But PLASMA is really heavier as you think??? Dıd you compare the cpu and ram usage?
@@nildesperandum2034 Hi, this is not a matter of RAM usage. It is a matter of CPU and GPU usages. Actually I really love Plasma (easy to use, highly customizable, many features out of the box, ...). But it is getting slow when running on old platforms such like my desktop and laptops. On my Kubuntu desktop (GK208B GeForce GT 710 + Plasma 5.24), Plasma runs well only if I disable all the desktop animations (desktop effects + compositor). This is why I still keep it. But on my laptops, Plasma is definitely too sluggish and I can afford only an light desktop such as Xfce or Cinnamon.
I recently installed the 32 bit version of LMDE on two very old laptops and I was pleasantly surprised and how well it worked. Good to see that some Linux distros are still abiding by the original premise of Linux running on any computer.
I still run arch on my laptop but i run lmde 6 on my pc. loving the stability and the flatpacks really work well. thanx to the linux mint team. lmde has always had a special place for me.
I'm a huge fan of the Mint project, it's not for me personally, but when I have to recomend a distro to a new Linux user coming from Windows, that's what I recomend them. I know it's a solid, reliable a stable experience, and it just works
Whats your current distro?
@@patboy24 Ubuntu
I recommend Zorin because it plays .exe out of the box
I started on MINT and have gone through about a hundred other distros and have come full circle back to MINT-- but I prefer the debian base- so LMDE6 is GREAT... just loving it... I even am able to do without my auto- tiling (the pop style auto- tiling NOT that keybanging bu....it!!!) and just LOVE it- it's rock solid , fast- and just great.
Great video. I'm going to put LMDE on my backup laptop. I'll keep Nobara on my gaming PC for now, but I don't mind having a faster-moving distro on that machine. Mint always has a special place in my heart. It was my main distro for years before I moved to others.
LMDE is currently running my main system as well. I love cinnamon and then getting qemu/kvm running is great! I had a few crashes when running all my VM's but then increased the DE memory limit and things have been running pretty smooth ever since!
Windows refugee here. I finally decided on LMDE. Wish me luck
I Gave up trying to utilize my dedicated gpu on the laptop.
Nothing worked.
@@Netbase2000 with LMDE edition you have to manually install GPU drivers as i did myself with sudo apt install..... there are instructions on the net, easy
LMDE 6 is great, i changed all my computers to LMDE and no more Windows for me, forever. you will like it.
Good stuff. These videos are always quality. I left Windows for Mint in 2014 and used nothing else until a few years ago when I discovered window managers. Still, I recommended Debian Cinammon for new users coming from Windows until LMDE could get it's development together, and boy did has it come together quickly. After watching this, I know I can comfortably recommend LMDE at this point.
Another excellent, extremely well produced; and thought out synopsis of LMDE.These videos, are hands down the most informative videos I have seen ,in the TH-cam Linux verse. Well done to all involved. I will install LMDE on my Samsung NP-R519,but will stick to MX Linux KDE,on my main PC.
Please slow down your speech there's no need to rush through it. 😉
Thanks!
Watching you from Linux Mint, and have tried out LMDE over several iterations. It IS an excellent Plan B, with version 6 currently running on my test-bed system. Cannot see a reason to be replacing Mint / Cinnamon on our daily drivers at this point, but it is nice to know I could if necessary.
i love it! have been a distro hopper for years but i have been parked on lmde since the latest release
Honestly Linux Mint's seriousness in using Debian will be their saving grace for the future.
They could rub shoulders with Ubuntu.
Never used Linux Mint cause I don't care for Ubuntu derivatives.
LM will gain my serious respect if they permanently switched to Debian.
They won't. Ubuntu will be their man base.
Mint is my favorite Linux distro hands down. I think LMDE will be my go to from now on.
I have been using LMDE 6 for almost a year now. It's great! It's stable and feels solid. I like Cinnamon but I think I'm going to install KDE just to see how it looks and feels on LMDE.
I had been testing Debian 12 and liked it. But seriously missed the Linux Mint additions. When LMDE6 came out I installed it on one of my computers. It was so good I upgraded a second one to LMDE6. It combines the best of Debian with the outstanding Mint additions which Debian 12 didn't have. LMDE6 is my go-to now. Very happy with it.
Hey, ordered myself a mini pc to dive into the linux world. I am new to linux and consider myself ok when troubleshooting tech issues. Was leaning towards Debian, but do you think i should go with mint debian? if so, why is that ?
I couldn't agree more. This is my daily driver and it's fantastic. In my opinion LMDE is the king of distros 👑
If I didn't game on my PC I would 1000% be on LMDE or Debian.
@@Masta_E I recently saw a tech article where they measured the performance of gaming in Steam on Windows Vs Linux. Linux performance was 15% better .....
@@MrOrtmeier I game on Linux, but I use Arch or EndeavorOS. I have found the distros that are more up to date work so much better for gaming. The only time I boot into windows is for bf2042 if some friends or online, or destiny 2. The rest have been gtg on Linux.
@@MrOrtmeiersure but cinnamon is not the best for gaming, kde or gnome are
@@MrOrtmeier 15 percent lower
I absolutely recommend Mint and Cinnamon. Of all the distros, Mint is both flexible and easy. I recently tried LMDE because, like others, I'd like to leave Ubuntu behind. I'm wondering if the device drivers included in Debian are not as extensive as Ubuntu. I ran into issues with both WiFi and Bluetooth on LMDE. They worked, but not consistently. I'd really like LMDE to be my go-to distro.
LMDE is there in case if Ubuntu fucks everything up. Many people love it. I'm using regular Mint MATE, but I'm thinking about trying LMDE to see how different it is from Ubuntu-based Mint.
I’ve switched from Ubuntu to LMDE 6, shortly after LMDE 6 was released.
Had multiple issues within Ubuntu, which I manually resolved. Also didn’t like the direction Ubuntu is going.
Was super surprised how easy LMDE 6 is to use. Stability is noticeable there and no more snap ! Everything works out of the box ! 👌🏼💪🏼
Love flatpack which means you’ll always be up to date.
I tested out LMDE on a virtual machine and I shared the enthousiasme One issue I found is that hardware support is not as good as under Ubuntu based Mint. While the latter worked out of the box, using add driver, with WiFi on my old MacBook, with LMDE there was no way to get the WiFi working. With another system the video card was not recognised so it did not start up at all. Again with Ubuntu based mint it started without issue.
@@fransheitkamp That is weird indeed.
In Ubuntu, 49" ultra wide is not supported by default. Also needed to install external drivers to even make use of my docking station.
With LMDE 6 I haven't installed any external drivers so far, or they were installed automatically. Works great !
Have you tried bare metal installations yet?
@@insanity83NL what is meant, is ubuntus amount of drivers available, aswell as the HWE stack. this does not apply to debian (yet?), so depending on how new your hardware is, it may fail.
@@TVPInterpolation I understand your reasoning. I suppose I must have been lucky with the LMDE 6 installation ^^
Flatpaks are slow and they take up way too much storage space.
They really made a good distro. Big up to Clem.
I appreciate Tex distros' presentations, and I think that He is the best at making them enjoyable.
THANK YOU!!! I gave up on trying to get ubuntu to access shared folders on my windows machines. And the ubuntu start menu is just awful. I installed LMDE and it just works the way it's supposed to work. I can access windows shared folders and the start menu is beautiful. I love the Cinnamon desktop.
this whole video is like an ad
And the comments are like testimonials. Hmmm....
I'm tempted to give LMDE a try. I've been using Debian 12 for the last few months and am comfortable and familiar with it. I think that switched to LMDE would be pretty easy since for anyone who knows how to add users to the sudo list and install the proprietary nvidia drivers in Debian. I hope that LMDE uses the PipeWire sound system, as it has a lot of cool tricks like automatically switching my external dac to match the sample rate of the source material.
Yes, LMDE6 comes with Pipewire, even before the Ubuntu-based version.
I have tested a bunch of distorts, Debian, Arch, Fedora, Opensuse, Ubuntu, PopOs, MX, Zorin, and many, many, more, all popular distorts. But only Mint (and finally LMDE) is the only one that just works out of the box and cause almost no issues.
Same experience here. I read so many reviews of the Top 10 distros. ElementaryOS, Pop_OS!, Zorin always made the list. Compared to Mint, they are all under-featured and difficult to use.
not Zorin though?
@@danytalksmusicZorin, like all the others, are OK. Linux Mint is just easier and better across the board.
I forgot to ask, can the LMDE be installed overtop the regular Mint Victoria, or does it have to be a fresh install?
Totally different base. Fresh install.
Excellent video! I've been a Linux Mint user since Ubuntu first went to the Unity desktop a long time ago. With LMDE 6, it looks like it might be time to slide over to it.
As you used LMDE 6 for this review, did you lose anything going from Mint 21.x to LMDE 6?
There should be a XFCE version and switched to the main Mint distro, tools simular to MX tools added.
I'd love to try this out, especially for gaming! I've been using Mint on one of my laptops and I love it, but I would eventually like to transition from Windows to LMDE on my desktop PC! As long as I can play about 95% of my games, I'd be happy.
If you have an AMD, go for it.
If you have an NVidia, just get Linux Mint 22, as it has a Driver Manager built in.
Or get Debian. It's as simple as adding "contrib" and "non-free" to the Sources list, running sudo apt update and then running one simple command to install and build the drivers.
Bringing the polished UI of Mint to the fantastic Debian userbase and support? Sign me up!
LMDE was very interesting a few years ago.
Nowaday, a basic Debian is as easy to install and use.
But LMDE is still easier
Does it offer Broadcom wifi drivers by default?
I've distro hopped like most other people. But this is the Distro I am sticking with from now on. I just love the Cinnamon desktop,
Great video! I see what looks like a Surface making an appearance. I have a Surface Pro 6 (8gb i5 with the keyboard and the pen if I ever remember where I put it) that doesn’t get much use and I’d like to try out modern Linux. Would you recommend LMDE for that device?
There are about 37 distros too many. Decades now and desktop is apparently still too useful for the Linux crowd to bother mastering... I'm tired of Linux being a superior OS for people who love spending all of their time on operating systems... It's time it became a superior OS for people who DONT want to spend their lives fixated on their environment.
@pa-dn1vh The problem is mac and ms are the same animal. They are both telemetry machines, for example iOS records and transmits every aspect of your usage, including when you open an app, when you close it, etc... There are likely millions of people who would make the switch assuming linux could ever pull its head out of its ass and make desktop something workable.
It already is.
Tf are you talking about lol. If you don't want to obsess over your environment then... don't? Nobody's stopping you from sticking with just one...
@@nvrmind1497 Simply running linux requires you to obsess over your environment. Perhaps it may not feel that way not if you have years of running headless and you're heavy into the os but we are not talking about that. We are talking about potentially millions of users from mac and windows that want a desktop environment that simply works and to this date, there is not one example of linux that satisfies this desire. Perhaps from your perspective there is, but we're talking about those who exclusively exist within desktop and from their own, there is not.
@@project.jericho Why are you being dishonest?
I couldn't get this to run smoothly on my Lenovo notebook, so back to the standard Mint.
looks very clean, im currently on Garuda Linux and it's been amazing, has similar clean windows like interface and themes, ill keep an eye on LMDE though.
I like that LMDE doesn't have the Mint cinnamon driver manager, which I could never get to work. The Nvidia driver from the repository works flawlessly and doesn't bork my system like driver manager does.
lmde is absolutely the best. no snap removal nonsense.
I just bought your online course, and I have two questions for you. First, I have the latest lmde-6-cinnimon-64bit download, as well as Rufus to create a bootable USB drive for LMDE. Should I format the drive to FAT32, or NTFS??? Second, my hearing is impaired, and I often have to rely on the CC feature here on TH-cam, thank you for enabling it here on your channel. Is there a way for you to enable CC on your instructional videos??? Thank you in advance!!!!
1. Fat32
2. Let me check, I'll add the captions if the option is given there.
Thank you for getting the course. I hope you have fun with it.
How well does the desktop scale at different resolutions?
Thank you for this video it was very informative. I just switche both my laptop and my home pc to this version of Linux Mint. All I have to say is the performace is off the chart better.
Is there an updater when a new release comes out?
Sir, please make a vid/tutorial for lmde6 btrfs install.
I tried following the tutorial for lmde5 for btrfs install, but mounting the sda3 to the /target directory just does not work and gives error of wrong fs type /target.
Please help.
Can you help? Almost immediately after I added a network to acces the internet, is froze. What do I do?
It also takes only 2 lines of terminal code to completely replace Cinnamon with Mate, for those (like me) who prefer the same look but with fewer bells and whistles., I personally would be in heaven if they would add Moksha desktop to LMDE.
You mentioned you have a dedicated Linux system/distribution for gaming… is that also lmde 6 in your video here, or do you use a different one currently?
lmde and mint both 2nd favorites. i like endeavour os nothing extra comes out of the box and i can just flatpak what i need without deleting things and changing the desktop environment
You spent 16 minutes saying absolutely nothing.
😂😂😂
Lmde with gnome DE , is probably the most wonderful system I’ve built.
LMDE 6 does not work with the ryzen 7 5950x a newer version of debian is require to have the correct microcode to support that processor. Thats why I had to go back to mint 21. 2.
Quick question ... it may sound stupid but it is worth it to ask. Is it possible to move from Mint to LMDE without having to reinstall my machine and the software installed on it. I am guessing the answer is no but maybe someone tried already.
I do not believe that is possible.
Thank you for the optimistic review. I've been using LMDE since version 2 and have always been impressed with it's performance, on anything. I run it on a Chromebook as well! I'm surprised how it's typically seen; half see it as 'bleeding edge' while the other half say it's 'good for newbies' (what?). I started on Ubuntu and it was kindas buggy and uglier at the time but I didn't want a 'Newbie Mint' and didn't like it at the time either. I jumped into LMDE and have the best of all worlds and have had it as daily driver on multiple systems for years. I currently tried LMDE6 on a Dell XPS touchscreen tablet - it worked immediately and blows away the default Windows 8!
I like it, just missing the he GNOME Terminal transparency setting - a minor aesthetic preference..
I use Mint and MX 19 and 21. I have a triple boot laptop that is running MX 19, 21 and Voyager that I am trying out.
how to make dualboot windows plus lmde. two separate physical drives? 1 is windows 2 is lmde? I'm looking for a tutorial.
Install Windows and then Install LMDE, which will ask you if you want to manually partition, erase your entire drive or if you want to make space for LMDE.
You can't install LMDE and then Windows, as Windows would kill your entire drive for itself.
Is there any way to fix screen brightness control issue in gaming laptop in linuxmint and ubuntu
What's the wallpaper at 6:58?
@13 minutes and 54 seconds you say you put the link on how to install Nvidia drivers in the description below the video, but it's not there. Would you please put it there.
Have you solved this? As I have 2021 gaming laptop (not high perf) on i5 and GTX1650 and struggled a bit after installation of LMDE5-> upgrade to LMDE6. Now its good.
I've been using Peppermint for years as prime for multiple pc. What's the catch in this? I mean bcs everything works on Pepper and this is just one like it.
I love mint since 2014, everything just works, even had the best gaming experience over "gaming focused" distros like, garuda, regata, nubara, popos. Mint more games work and without doing anything extra. Btw, can get much games to work on Garuda gaming edition, distro look awesome thou
Hi. Do you have link to wallpaper
Getting ready to install Mint 21.2 and saw this video. You changed my mind. Excellent review with perfect timing. Thank you.
Still running LMDE5 on one of my desktop PC's. There isn't (much) difference with "LMUE" 🙂(Linux Mint).
I downloaded the ISO and tried to get it to run under Windows 10 HyperV VMcreate just to see if it was worth the hype.
The ISO didn't even get passed the first black screen looking for some PXE network driver or whatever.
Do Linux devs even test their software before they roll it out the door?
Don't tell me an operating system is great if the installer can't even boot in a virtual machine.
Do you know of any way to do AUTO-TILING on cinamon? (the POP OS style AUTO- tiling- using KEY crap is NOT "AUTO" tiling)...
I don't see the link for installing nvidia gpu drivers?
How about LMDE6 vs MX-21?
I use this on my 5YO laptop with 4gb RAM ; it freezes with just 3-4 tabs on chromium 😢
Issues with Bluetooth connectivity.....cannot establish connection.
did you solved it? Is fixed when switch to LM ubuntu?
A great review, thanks for sharing 👍
I mostly use Debian, I've used LMDE too and mostly it's good, I enjoyed it, but, it's basically just Debian with flatpaks already configured and few extra tools installed. But I'd still use it even though I'm not a big cinnamon fan
I,ve tried several versions of Linux, and have experienced sound problems in all. No sound at all.
I don't see a 'link in the description below' for installing nVidia drivers. I did, however, use Synaptic to do it, and while it appears to have worked, LizardByte's Sunshine Streamer app does not detect my RTX-3080, and instead falls back to using a software H.264 encoder. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I use Blender and rely heavily on Nvidia GPUs for my work but never could get them work in any of the Debian based distros despite I wanted to switch onto it. This is the reason I have to stick with Ubuntu based distros where Mint has been my choice of OS on my primary workstations due to it's rock solid stability.
@@smartartcreations Good to know, thanks.
I didn't wait long to see if someone would provide a solution to my Sunshine streamer problem. Instead, I just wiped my LMDE 6 installation and put 'regular' Mint Cinnamon on it, because it works perfectly with my GPU.
I was reluctant to move from Mint to LMDE thinking it was going to be less user-friendly.
But, once LMDE 6.0 was released and I saw some good reviews, I thought of trying it.
It seems faster and less bulky with the same user interface.
Now, I won't go back from LMDE to Mint(Ubuntu).
why all distro capped wifi speed upto 40Mbps ? whereas my plan is much more than that ! any solution of it?
*Probably* an issue with the driver, what network card u got?
@@draftofspasiba2 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Thanks. I'm going to give it a try.
I know that I can update the Debian core via /etc/apt/sources.list to testing or even unstable. But is that advisable? Will it work with the Mint additions? Or should I stay with Debian testing + cinnamon?
The LMDE 6 installer kernel panics for me. I have 3 other distros installed with no problems, including Debian.
I love it that they are evolving and relying on something better like Debian instead of relying on the infamous Ubuntu! You know what they say, never put all of your eggs in one basket!
Tex.... I simply love LMDE-6..... after many, many other distro installs, LMDE-6 was the only one that installed w/out any hiccups, burps or crashes....! The others..... they couldn't find my Wifi card or my Wifi dongle plugged into the USB port.....! LMDE-6 is on one 1 TB 2.5" 5400 RPM HDD and the 1 TB 2.5" 5400 RPM HDD has MX-Linux running on it..! W/a dual-boot system I choose which one I want to work on...... and lately that's been LMDE-6.....! Those two being on a DELL Latitude E6540 machine I added 12 GB of sdRAM to make 16 GB Total and an Intel i7-4810 quad core CPU w/8 Threads it screams all day long at 2.80 GHz..... and doesn't even get warm....! Yesterday I dismantled the whole Laptop as the "Power On" button that sits flush with the palm rest all around the keyboard area, had fell down into the innards of the case. I had to use a jewelers tiny screw driver to maneuver the button into position, then lightly push down, to even turn the Laptop ON...! That got old really fast...! The plastic Power On button was glued to the underside of the Palm rest but the 2 thin plastic pins were both broken..! I just laid the whole thing on its back and dropped some small dabs of Super Glue on each where they had been broken from, let it dry .... and all was good, then reassembled the Laptop..! It took a couple of hours, all toll... Now i just barely touch and press it lightly till the light comes on.... and my finger is off it.....! =)
Thank you 🎉. Excellent video and presentation.
as a windows user willing to swtich to linux, i'm surprised most linux user wonder why people don't quit with windows. In 3 months it's like the twentieth distro i come across labeled as "mindblowing", "best distro ever" and so on. the amount of options is overwhelming at best.
It doesnt work well on an HP Pavillion, had too many keyboard issues. if I close my lid and reopen some times the keyboard will not come back and I am forced to reboot. their are other issues too, but you will find out if you want.
I love Linux Mint its been my main desktop for years. Sorry modern looking is not one of its draws still looks like something out of the late 90's.
Does it have driver manager for gpu?No?Then...yeah ..
I have LMDE6 on my main desktop, my other desktop has Debian 12 Cinnamon, my Mini PC has Debian 12 Cinnamon, as well as on my modded old Chromebook. Flatpack is what got me off the Ubuntu based Mint Cinnamon, plus the buntu based Mint cinnamon would only see my soundcard, Audigy Soundblaster FX 7.1 as stereo only, but LMDE6 saw it right, so it was bye bye buntu based Mint. I've been using Mint since 2011, as it says on my Mint forum ID date I joined. Switching to Debian base has had me start learning again, and it's not difficult, just different, like video and wireless drivers, I got it down now for Debian/LMDE6 :)
Hi Lee, I upgraded to LM 21.3 , did a fresh install. When I plugged all my accessories in, it just worked. I have been on Mint since 2017/2018... and there were always problems getting the accessories sorted out. My experience was /is with 21.3, it was all painless.
I am looking forward to trying out LMDE6 and Debian 12 on my other PC's.
Oh, one thing with LM 21.3..... if anything doesn't work, get rid of the 5.15 series kernel and install the 6.x (I am currently 6.5) and it will definitely work. I have one of the "latest and greatest" PCs, so the old kernel had a problem with some hardware... the new kernel had no issues at all. SO think about the age of the PC, will the std kernel work,
or should you upgrade to new kernels... that can be selected by installing 'EDGE", or manually later. Best of luck....
Can it run windows third party software?
The way thing are going LMDE may set up new trend among distros. Most ubuntu derivatives might eiher switch over completely to debian as base or have both but in this case odds are in favour of LMDE killing off ubuntu based Mint completely. I am gonna switch over to linux but my distro of choice will be Debian because i feel comfortable using it and if i decide to selfhost servers i can build everthing on top of debian which makes updating everything much easier. Honestly if debain derivatives kill off all ubuntu derivatives by replacing(meaning same distro but different base) them i wouldn't be surprised because most are community focused but ubuntu while still popular isn't so comunity focused as it once was.
what do you think of voyager?
I am a fan of Mint And I also liked LMDE Version of Mint I currently have Mint 21 on my notebook I had to flash the BIOS to install because it was an Android version in other words a cheap lap top...lol!! as far as using Linux on a PC...Well as soon as Creative and Linux decide to play nice unfortunately I am stuck with phukn Winblows in order to enjoy 5.1 surround on my stupidly expensive audio system (not really made for a PC) that I have managed to cobble together an amazing all in one. Trust me I have been trying to switch to Linux since 1999 and so far there has always been something that is too much time nd work to deal with. OK Bring on the Flaming!!
Went from Mint to Debian with KDE plasma, and settled on LMDE.
It's kinda ironic, but one of the big reasons Cinnamon is so popular is because it's where Windows should be right now, but M$ prefers to discard yesterday's user experience rather than perfect it.
I exclusively use lmde since it is also in 32bit so I have the same user experience on all my devices. I’m not happy with Ubuntu’s direction.
yeah well, flatpaks have issues on LMDE.