Giving #LinuxMint a spin in a virtual machine because my mom has expressed an interest in migrating to Linux when #Windows 10 enters end-of-life. It's actually pretty darn slick and user-friendly; comes with a lot of stuff made by the Mint devs themselves for #Linux Mint, and I think it might be the perfect thing to migrate my mom over to. Will probably stick with the #Debian based LMDE.
It's Ubuntu based but they make some of their own design and security choices. For one, they are the lead developers of the Cinnamon desktop, so by default it ships with that and you will generally get newer versions of Cinnamon faster on Mint.
They also remove snaps in favor of flatpaks, though you can obviously reinstall snaps yourself if you prefer those, but by default it has flatpaks instead.
They also have a "Debian Edition" or "LMDE" that is based on Debian instead of Ubuntu.
Majid Hussain
in reply to Marcus • • •Marcus
in reply to Majid Hussain • • •It's Ubuntu based but they make some of their own design and security choices. For one, they are the lead developers of the Cinnamon desktop, so by default it ships with that and you will generally get newer versions of Cinnamon faster on Mint.
They also remove snaps in favor of flatpaks, though you can obviously reinstall snaps yourself if you prefer those, but by default it has flatpaks instead.
They also have a "Debian Edition" or "LMDE" that is based on Debian instead of Ubuntu.
Majid Hussain
in reply to Marcus • • •