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My walk to Linux as operating system for my daily computer tasks. Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) became my first Linux daily driver. Walking to Linux includes various Linux-related topics.
Today my Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE laptop Lenovo Thinkpad T460P was frozen when turned off, at a black terminal screen where a lot had been going on but not coming to the end and turn off the system. I had been in hibernate state before, nothing I normally use, and when activating again it was not fully normal so I intended to turn off/restart.
I know the power off button should not be used on Linux if possible.
Today it worked with the reisub command: hold down ALT and SysRq and at the same time as those are still hold down, type r e i s u b very slowly, seconds in between.
- Hold down ALT + SysRq
- Type the keys r e i s u b, on at a time, in slow pace, still holding down ALT + SysRq
- Release ALT + SysRq (next step will start anyway, I think)
- Computer reboots
And yes, it is difficult to do this with only two hands, but managable. It workf for me, machine rebooted and work as normal again. Relief!
Note that I use my laptop with a full size external keyboard. Many laptops does not have any SysRq key on the keyboard. The function is available always or mostly, but it differs between brands and models how to activate SysRq when it does not have its own key. For example, several Thinkpad models incl T460p, the key combination FN + S activates the SysRq according to Lenovo support page.
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 100s, where I cannot find info, but this seems to be the way to manage SysRq:
- Hold down ALT + FN + Print Sc
- Release FN + Print Sc (still hold down ALT)
- Type the keys r e i s u b, on at a time, in slow pace
- Release ALT
- Lenovo Ideapad 100s reboots
This article describes what I did: Cleanly Restarting Your System. Use the Magic SysRq Key on Linux to Fix Frozen X Servers, Cleanly Reboot, and Run Other Low-Level Commands.
Also Wikipedia: Magic SysRq key.
You can also listen when I talk about this on Hacker Public Radio: hpr4137 :: I used reisub key sequence to reboot my frozen Linux computer. A frozen Linux computer can safely be rebooted with the reisub key sequence. Aired 11 June 2024.
Henrik Hemrin
29 May 2024
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In summer 2023 I wrote the article OpenWrt Linux on my TP-link router.
It is about my router TP-Link Archer MR200 version 1, with both wired and wireless router connections. I bought it in January 2017. I later upgraded its firmware to a 2018 release.
That 2018 release is still the latest, or I can now in reality say, last firmware release of the TP-Link operating system for ths router.
So in summer 2023 I flashed and changed operating system to the open source Linux based operating system OpenWRT. My router was fit for the latest release of OpenWRT: 22.03.05, which had been released 1 May 2023. Since then, there has been a few upgrades I have not installed.
A coulpe of days ago I flased to OpenWRT 23.05.3, released 25 March 2024. This is the latest stable release of OpenWRT.
So my now more than seven years old router has a maintained firmware, operating system, it can manage the latest OpenWRT stable release!
What I still have to figure out is how I should manage my switch-router tandem architecture. I contacted the ISP provider last autumn for information about their fibre switch without any response. Now I have digged more into the issue and sent new questions to the ISP. I hope they soon will come back with information and a possibility for me to login to the fibre switch. That fibre switch has automatic fw upgrades, but I have no information about when it is upgraded. I believe with some configuration changes in the fibre switch my tandem setup will work flawlessly, although it already now works well for the daily tasks.
Henrik Hemrin
23 May 2024
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I wanted to extract a few minutes from a video (video + audio). I do not do it often and I have not done it since I moved to Linux as my daily driver. The program I knew exist is Kdenlive. But I have never used it. I went to my LMDE program repository and browsed the video category. Beside Kdenlive, OpenShot and Shotcut looked promising.
Because I have heard about Kdenlive I decided to go for it. It is a very advanced software for video editing. My task to only extract a bit from a video is a very minor. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, reading and watching some info. Relatively soon the job was done and mission completed for this video editing. It's great to have the repository to browse for free and open source software!
Henrik Hemrin
10 May 2024
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Now I have been using a Linux operating system on my main personal computer for more than three months, beginning in early December 2023. I have written multiple times about this topic. It is LMDE, Linux Mint Debian Edition I use.
In short, it works very well. Almost no issue. A few times it has had problems to find WiFi but it has started working again after a few restarts. I have needed to restart the Cinnamon desktop a few times. My Borgbackup + Vorta software for backup gives occasionally a warning flag after backup, but as far as I understand from the log file it is ok. But I should read some more in their documentation to learn more about it. And probably some more incidents with my LMDE laptop I do not recall now.
I have installed Audacity and Ardour from the repository as system packages. Both are for audio recording and editing. I have used Audacity before but I want to try out Ardour which is a more advanced tool. I have recorded my first ever pod episode for Hacker Public Radio, episode hpr 4071: Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM). I connected my Zoom H1n Handy Recorder to a USB interface on the laptop and recorded with Audacity. After recording I used Audacity for audio editing before I uploaded the show to Hacker Public Radio. I prepared my manuscript and show notes with my Joplin note taking software.
Henrik Hemrin
20 March 2024
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Last days I have taken the step to clean-up most, I hope, hidden files that came with the migration of my files from macOS to Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE).
They did not do any direct harm as I have seen, but they are in some situations visible when I save files from browser and of course when I turn on to see hidden files in the file manager. But I do not have any use of them, and I think it is good to not have unnecessary files that may cause errors one day and speed up file browser, backup etcetera.
I estimate I have deleted 75 - 100 000 files of a few bytes each, I estimate circa 300 MB space in total.
I did not use the terminal to search and delete all at one time. I am not skilled for that and afraid of the risk for errors. Instead I used the file manager. There I could also open some of them in text editor, check date and more to verify it was reasonable to delete them. If my notes are correct, I searched and deleted files based on those criterias:
- ._.DS_Store
- *._*.pdf
- ._*.*
- ._*
Henrik Hemrin
10 January 2024
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Now I have used a Linux operating system as the daily driver for my home computer. LMDE, Linux Mint Debian Edition to be more precise.
In short, it works really well.
I have been exploring Linux for a few years, not at least Linux Mint and LMDE, so I have gotten familiar with Linux well before having it as my daily driver. My Linux competence development has also included reading magazines like Linux Format, Linux Magazine and Linux Journal, some books, articles on the internet, forums in particular Mint international and Swedish and several podcasts like Mintcast and Distrohopper's Digest.
On the error side, I can report that once those weeks the Cinnamon desktop crashed and needed a restart.
Backup is important and has been a focus area to early setup. On macOS I used Apples proprietary Time machine plus my own manual backup of home catalog.
I configured TimeShift for system backup on an external drive. TimeShift is included in the LMDE installation. System backup can save a lot of time and troubles when something occur.
My own data is the most important to backup. Linux Mint incl LMDE has a backup tool for intended for easy home catalog backup included as well. So while pondering for my longer term solution I created a backup with that tool on an external drive. On Linux I have earlier used the popular DejaDup for home catalog backup. Now I wanted to try something else, more advanced.
I decided to try BorgBackup and added Vorta as a graphical interface (GUI) to the command line interface from BorgBackup. I choosed Borgbackup for several reasons, beside that it is free and open source: I can have multiple backup profiles, end-to-end encryption, it supports backup to an external drive as well as to a cloud drive, compression, scheduled backup and of course that new backups are built upon differencies to the older backups so not all is needed to backup every time. My Vorta BorgBackup has now been running for a week or so. It has logged some warnings and errors at some baclup occasions (code 1 in the backup report). I can see there are warnings about missing cashe-files related to Firefox and error related to Wifi. But as far as I understand from log file nothing critical in the meaning that my backup is not generally working. But I should follow and follow up. In meantime maybe a new backup with Mints own tool, or any other method. I run it daily on an external drive. My plan is to add a profile for a backup to another external drive - a drive that I do not have connected all the time but connect e g every week or month for additional safety. Finally I really consider to add a cloud backup from a service like Borgbase or Hetzner, both supporting BorgBackup. With Borg, the backup will be encrypted on my conditions so it should be safe to use cloud and still that nobody on the line or at the provider can read any of my data.
Like WhatsApp in my previous report, I have installed Element (Matrix client) with the Mint webapp manager rather that as a separate application. It works well.
I have installed Signal messenger. I installed the software and added their own repository to the repository list, with help of the commands they state on their website. It is best to be very conservative to execute commands/scripts found on the net that I do not understand in detail myself - bad scripts can of course be directly harmful. In this case, I trusted that the Signal web site had not been hacked nor that Signal want to do anything harmful.
For my photos I have installed RawTherapee and done a few photo raw image processing with it. It works faster than on my macMini. I have also installed GIMP although not used this installation yet. GIMP is the big free and open source image manipulation software.
I have also installed VueScan. It is a very good, non-free, software I pay for to scan negatives, positives, photos and other prints. Like most softwares mentioned above it is multiplatform and I have used it before. It is probably the best scanner software on market for private persons, in particular for anyone who want to use same software for multiple scanners from different manufacturers, including older that are not maintained any more by the manufacturer.
Furthernore I have installed Crossover from Codeweavers, a software to run my Windows applications on Linux. Crossover is a commercial software I pay for. It is built on the free and open source Wine, the open source software, but more user friendly. Codeweavers supports Wine in various ways, so to purchase Crossover will also give support to Wine.
I have installed one additional panel software: CPU temperature. I can always monitor the CPU temperature. It is a good measure to get a hint that the hardware works and that no software runs crazy. More addons exist and I likely will install more. It is updated via the ordinary update manager.
It is worth to mention again that LMDE as well as standard Linux Mint installations comes with a very good set of software for normal daily usage of the computer.
Henrik Hemrin
8 January 2024
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Now I have used Linux, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), as my daily computer driver for about two-three weeks.It works fine!
I have returnedat least once to my previous daily driver, macOS on a macMini, to use a software that is not available for Linux. The software is FrontBook, a software to make photographic material from Crimson. I am not sure how I should do next time I need it, if the online version is good enough, if it may work with Crossover/Wine or if I will use macOS or Windows.
Last years I have had a strategy to switch over to softwares that are available on multiple platforms including Linux. It has been a long term strategy to make this walk to Linux possible and will of course also make it possible to return to macOS or Windows in case I want to. I favour free and open source software but I do not mind to use some non-open source softwares as well.
At the beginning of December was the Linux kernel 6.1.64-1 released. I installed it shortly after it was available in my LMDE Update manager. However, soon it was reported that that there might be an ext4 data corruption issue with the kernel. I had that kernel for about two days until a fix was released in a new kernel release. Ext4 is the file system I use, the most common for Linux operating systems. I am not aware that I have had any issue with data corruption on my computer.
LMDE has very many good softwares included in the installation. However, I need more and I have started to install them. I will talk about four I have installed so far.
I have installed Calibre e-book management (as deb from the repository). I have used Calibre also on macOS. From Calibre on my macMini I did an export, and now I imported the same file into Calibre on LMDE. It works. Calibre is a software to manage a library of eg books and articles in epub and pdf formats. In its database it is easy to manage metadata. Calibre stores a copy of the documents in its own library. Calibre is an excellent free and open source software.
Another excellent free and open software I really like is digiKam photo management software. I use it firstly for its catalog capabilities including face tags. But it also has photo editing, importing, exporting capabilities and more. I used Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE) for many years. PSE is defintely not available for Linux, hard to see it ever will. I also got somewhat disappointed of the need to buy a new release when their geo-feature depending on a Google-connection stopped working due to a Google change. My by time older version of PSE also crashed quite often last years. It was a big job to get my meta data migrated. After trials, I managed relatively well via first importing to Lightroom. I wrote about the migration in length, in Swedish: Byta fotokatalogprogram till digiKam från Photoshop Elements och Lightroom Classic. The very "tired" and slow PSE catalog on my macOS became a fast digiKam catalog on macOS without crashes! I have used digiKam both on Linux and macOS and I was considering if I should import my old Linux settings, but decided I will do a fresh start. Data was migrated from my macOS to LMDE by the meta data in the photo files and/or the xmp sidecars, i e none of the data bases were exported - which would be difficult or impossible in my understanding. This way also made it possible for me to rearrange my photo folders structure. I installed digiKam as an AppImage from their web site. DigiKam has a very active and good support forum in form of an e-mail list. Not at least the main developers are very active in the support forum. Before you start to use digiKam, consider how your current tool manages metadata in databases, photo files and sidecars, and how you want digiKam to behave. For example I have, for time being, decided to use sidecars but instead of digiKams default file scheme *.*.xmp (eg photo1.jpg.xmp) I use the standard format *.xmp (eg photo1.xmp), which digiKam refer to be aligned with commercial softwares.
Next software I want to mention is the Joplin note-taking software. I have used it on various platforms for a couple of years. It is free and open source. I have set up sync with end-to-end encryption via Nextcloud. It was somewhat difficult to set up sync and E2E encryption first time, had to read the info, but not more complicated than I could do it. I think it may be easier now. Today it is also possible to buy a cloud sync from Joplin. Joplin works well for me, especially I like the desktop version. I use some basic markdown to support my writing and sometimes attachments. Joplin has many extensions available, one is a webclipper to save web pages. Like digiKam it comes to Linux as an appimage. But I install it differently by a bash script provided on their website. The script is used both for installation, check for udate and execute any upgrade.
Finally in this review over my activities on my new Linux LMDE daily driver is the chat tool WhatsApp from Meta. Several unofficial WhatsApp softwares are available in the LMDE/Debian repository. However, I am uncertain which of them if any I want to use. Instead I decided to install WhatsApp as a webapp. This means that I make the web application from WhatsApp to work as a "real" application by using Linux Mint Webapp manager. I needed to include navigation list, but now it works very well.
Henrik Hemrin
20 December 2023
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Linux Mint Debian Edition, LMDE, is now my daily driver. I switched about a week ago.
I started to use Linux, try and explore, a few years ago. Slowly I have walked to migrate to Linux as my daily driver. I migrated from Microsoft Windows to Apple macOS in 2015 on a macMini model late 2014. This macMini runs on macOS 12 release which is still maintained, but latest macOS is currently on release 14. I expect my macMini will not run on a maintained release so much longer.
I had decided to use Linux Mint Cinnamon as my daily driver on my Lenovo Thinkpad T460p laptop, which I purchased refurbished in January 2022 with the intention to use as daily driver. It was manufactured in December 2016.
I had started to use this laptop for a couple of applications when I decided I instead wanted to try out LMDE as my first Linux daily driver. Prior to this decision, I have had LMDE installed on another machine to explore it. LMDE has the Cinnamon desktop. On the surface, LMDE and "standard" Linux Mint Cinnamon looks and feels incredible similar. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian unstable version. LMDE is based on Debian stable version without Ubuntu as intermediator. I like Debian, I have Debian installed on another machine for exploration. Both Linux Mint and LMDE are very stable and good, no doubt. Ubuntu is also very stable and widely used. I may have some concern about Ubuntu long term strategy for Snap packages versus deb packages, which is in some conflict to Linux Mint preference for Flatpak packages over Snap packages in addition to deb packages. LMDE has in my understanding become better and better, more and more similar to standard Linux Mint. Now when LMDE 6 was released, based on the recently released Debian 12, I became very tempted to go for LMDE. And so I did.
I started with migration of all my files. I copied all files on the macMini to an external drive, exFAT file system, and then copied them into T460p on ext4 file system. Then I continued with installation and configuration of some of the most important tools: 1Password password manager, Mullvad VPN client, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. I have done some system configuration like moving the bar to the top, move window close buttons to the left and added a CPU temperature indicator from Cinnamon spices. I have connected a HP USB printer, it was found and configured automatically without any trouble. I have started to install and configure some other software. Many more to do, but I can use it as my daily driver. I have one software on macOS that I suspect will be difficult to run on Linux even via Wine/Crossover, but we'll see.
To some extent I have used Apple office suite, mostly Pages and Numbers. Not so much, but some. I have tested to open such files with LibreOffice already on macOS and saved saved a few in the open odt format. Because LibreOffice could manage Apple Office suite documents, I did not bother to export file formats in advance of migration. But I got a negative surprise after migration: some of the .pages document had not arrived as a single file on my T460p, but instead as a folder with files and subfolders, impossible to open as a document. Interestingly, the folder contains preview versions of the file in jpg format. However many .pages had arrived as normal files and could be opened. When I checked the external drive I used for migration in exFAT format, it was the same condition when I opened the file manager from T460p. But when I plugged the external drive again into the macMini, the folders are instead as normal files in the macOS file manager. I search all files in .pages (and .numbers) format, thankfully less than 100, and compared them to status on the T460p. Less than 20 had the odd file-folder behaviour. So, I opened Pages on macOS, exported those files to Word docx format, Pages does not support the free and open odt format... After the export I also saved those files again in Pages. After this, I migrated them again to my LMDE T460p. And now, both the .pages and the newly exported .docx can be opened with LibreOffice! My best guess is that this odd behaviour is related to different releases of Pages, with problem occurring on an older version. I have mostly used Pages on macOS, but to some extent also on iPhone iOS.
I have used OpenOffice for very many years, as a contiuation of the German StarOffice which Sun acquired and made free as a competitor to Microsoft Office. Many turns since then for OpenOffice, now free and open source, but last years the development of OpenOffice has slowed down and almost stopped. LibreOffice is a based on OpenOffice and is very actively developed and maintained. Maybe I will install OpenOffice as I have used it so much and used to it, but perhaps better to learn LibreOffice better.
Although LMDE is very similar to Linux Mint, they are not identical. One difference is the lack of the Linux Mint Device manager. This laptop T460p has two graphic processors, an Intel and in addition one by Nvidia. With Linux Mint I could manage the Nvidia graphics from the Device Manager. But with LMDE, I am more at my own. Debian has a wiki page I believe will assist me. I have not tried yet, but I think I will be able if I want to to enable the Nvidia graphics.
My LMDE laptop works faster than my macMini. Beside the different operating systems, the specs are somewhat different. Another difference is that LMDE is freshly installed while macOS has been installed and updated since it was new. Some of the spec parameters:
Lenovo Thinkpad T460p:
- Intel Core i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70 GHz, 4 cores, 8 logical processes
- RAM 32 GB
- SSD 1 TB
- Grafic Nvidia GeForce 940MX + Intel HD Graphics 530
Apple Mac mini (late 2014):
- 2,8 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
- RAM 8 GB
- Macintosh HD 1,12 TB Fusion Drive (combo SDD and HDD)
- Grafic Intel Iris 1536 MB
If I will introduce Linux to a friend, I will recommend the standard Linux Mint Cinnamon because it is even more user friendly. And maybe I will return to it. Soon Linux Mint 21.3 will arrive with new features and improvements, and I hope new features for example in Hypnotix will soon be available for LMDE as well. 21.3 will have support for secure boot, a useful security feature which actually already is available in LMDE 6, and I have it enabled. For now I am proud and happy with my migration to Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE.
Henrik Hemrin
11 December 2023
19 December 2023: Added some words about OpenOffice, Mullvad and added links.
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I bought a new wireless router in January 2017. It is a TP-Link Archer MR200 version 1.
A router is a kind of computer with memory, processor and so on. And software to run it. I have upgraded the software, firmware, on the router to the May 2018 release, provided by TP-Link. It is the latest available software, and most likely the last update they ever will provide.
Router software, like other software, can over time be improved with new features, more user friendly, and with bug fixes as well as security fixes. I have understood that the life time when the manufacturer provides updates of the software is very limited, far shorter than the life time of the hardware. I understand my router is not an exception, it is a rather common situation.
Of course, newer hardware can have better functionalities, other radio frequencies, radio power output, power consumption and so on. But the hardware may also still be good enough for years longer than it is supported by the manufacturer.
Beside the "stock firmware" provided by the manufacturer, many routers can also be driven by other software. One other software is OpenWrt.
OpenWrt is a Linux operating system, a free open source software, for embedded devices like routers. It is not only an option when the stock firmware is outdated for the router, it is actually in my understanding a good software to use also from start.
If a router (be carful with exact version) can use OpenWrt or not can be found in their data base. They also have a separate list listing recommended routers for new purchase.
My router, the TP-Link Archer MR200 version 1, is listed as working and good enough for the latest release of OpenWrt.
Each router model has its own page with its details how the software is swapped from stock firmware to OpenWrt.
I go to the page for my router. In my case, I should swap with help of TFTP; Trivial File Transfer Protocol. Apparently, my router has a built in TFTP server and I need to have a TFTP client on the computer I use to upload the new firmware to the router.
The instruction actually recommend the Tftpd64 software to run on Windows. This software includes both server and client and has a graphical user interface, rather old style like Windows 95 or so. I installed and opened it successfully on Windows 10. But I did not use it as I wanted to use a Linux operating computer.
So, on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T430s) I have Debian 12.1 (Bookworm) operating system installed. I installed the tftp-hpa software, which is a TFTP client. Actually I installed also the tftpd-hpa software, the corresponding TFTP server, which I later understood was not needed. Tftp-hpa is a command line software only, so no graphical interface.
The process for my router (again, specific routines for each router model), is that I turn off my router, connect my laptop to an ethernet port (much preferred to do this firmware swap with cable and not wireless), disconnect everything else, change internet connection to manual and state the specific IP, subnet mask and DNS/Gateway details provided, then start my TFTP client, turn on the router, push the WPS/reset button on the router until it starts to upload and flash the new firmware I have downloaded to my laptop.
But how should the router know where I have stored the file? Despite reading documentation, search the internet, I could not understood where I should store the file to upload. It was also unclear to me if I should need to do a connect command, and a put file command (upload command) or only needed to start the client.
I had to do a couple of trials that failed until I had success.
My conclusion is that I needed to place the file in the folder /srv/tftp/ (this directory was created at installation, not by me). If my connect command (to the IP address) was needed or not, I do not know. Anyway, when I got this working, the firmware swap was fast and no issue.
I could then, after changing internet connection to the ordinary dynamic, connect to the router with the browser (Firefox in my case), in same manner as with the old stock firmware. Now I am ready with the TFTP.
After quick review and setting of this initial OpenWrt software via the web interface, it was time to flash the router with the real and new software. This was done in the more usual way: I downloaded the latest OpenWrt 22.03.05, released 1 May 2023, to my computer and uploaded it to the router via the web interface.
After that I have configured the radio so I can use the wireless WLAN as well. My router is up and running with an updated and secure software!
I still have a lot to explore. I have not configured a guest network. I still have an issue to connect to the router while I am connected upstream to the WAN. But I believe I will find out and learn. By the way, there is also a software provided in the instruction if I ever want to go back to the stock firmware. OpenWrt has an extensive documentation as well as a user forum. When I learn to use OpenWrt, it will also be a learning for future when I have a new router with OpenWrt.
I like that my router is up-to-date with its software! A software that extend the life time of my hardware. A software which also is free and open source, with more features and configuration possibilities than the original stock firmware. On the downside, it has a learning curve.
Henrik Hemrin
10 August 2023
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I am aiming for Linux Mint Cinnamon as my daily driver. I am slowly migrating from macOS on a macMini that now is so old that it does not make it to latest macOS release. My main Linux Mint Cinnamon machine is a Lenovo ThinkPad T460p.
Linux Mint "standard edition", which comes with the choice of Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktop environment, is based on Ubuntu. And Ubuntu is based on Debian. According to Wikipedia; "Ubuntu packages are based on packages from Debian's unstable branch, which are synchronised every six months."
In parallel with the standard edition, the Linux Mint team also has the LMDE; Linux Mint Debian Edition. LMDE only comes with Cinnamon desktop. Again according to Wikipedia, "The Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) uses Debian Stable as the software source base rather than Ubuntu."
I have been looking into LMDE earlier. It seems to have done some major improvements and is becoming more mature and more on pair with the standard edition.
Therefore, yesterday on my older Lenovo ThinkPad T430s I replaced my installation of elementary with LMDE 5. 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. I managed to do the installation without messing up anything else on the machine!
I want to explore, to get a feeling, how LMDE 5 is compared to Linux Mint 21.1 (i.e. the latest releases of both at the time of writing this article).
- I intend to install same software on LMDE as I will use on my daily driver as one comparison.
- Furthermore I wonder if more of Flatpak will be needed (especially when up to date software releases are desirable).
- And not at least if it is more difficult, what is different, in managing LMDE from my end user perspective.
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). May LMDE be a relevant alternative for me to standard Linux Mint edition as my daily driver?
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.
I hope I’ll be back with findings!
Henrik Hemrin
15 January 2023
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