Arch users have the latest softwares, Debian users have LMDE. Is it real that Arch users are rich and have mid level PCs and is always up to date? Well they don’t have Mint(debian edition). Dont need to ask if anyone using it tho cuz its Mint and Debian edition of a distro.
Op, did you have a stroke?
No.
Good to know
Been using it for two years on my side business laptop, works awesome. Plug and play functionality with most the apps I need, and rock stable.
Yep, LMDE is everything good from Debian coupled with the great usability and good defaults from Mint.
Why LMDE? Cinnamon is available in the upstream Debian repos…
Dunno, Its Mint that I want.
Its about sending the message: fuck ubuntu, w debian to the mint maintainers
Yes and no. While some parts like the Cinnamon shell itself are available in Debian some environment tools (e.g. xed) are not available.
I don’t remember exactly whats also missing but in my personal experience the Cinnamon desktop on LMDE is way better and mor polished than on plain Debian.
Is it real that Arch users are rich and have mid level PCs and is always up to date?
I do have a powerful desktop running Arch (or rather EndeavourOS with the EndeavourOS packages slowly removed over time), but also a 15 year old netbook. There’s plenty of up-to-date lightweight software in Arch repos, you don’t need to limit yourself to old software.
Also it’s not like a new version of GIMP is suddenly going to use double the memory if you use the same tools in it.
The biggest issue for the netbook is web browsing, but that’s just about web pages being resource hogs nowadays. uBlock Origin and NoScript help massively. Trying to use an old web browser is IMHO a terrible idea - you’ll end up with broken pages and a massive pile of security vulnerabilities.
My streambox/shizbox machine (a Orange pi 5 MAX w/ 16Gb of ram) has Armbian “bleeding edge”/sway (Which is basically “Rolling release Debian”, and no DE) – everything just werks. It’s as easy as “Install packages, copy .dotfiles in, run, done.”. With those things said… yes, I am using Debian. And yes, I also has the latest packages – without breaking things apart. And no, I don’t want to go back to x11.
