Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

At Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:12:06 +0000 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <teo.en.ming@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Subject: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments
>
> Good day from Singapore,
>
> Debian 13 Trixie release notes:
>
> [QUOTE]
>
> The user can choose among different desktop environments to try: GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and Xfce.
>
> [/QUOTE]
>
> Link: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
>
> May I know which desktop environment is the closest resemblance to Windows
> 10 or 11?

I don't know which of the above mentioned desktop environments has the
"closest resemblance to Windows 10 or 11".  The common "wisdom" of the
Internet (or at least the YouTube subset) is that Mint Cinnamon is what is
recomended for people moving from MS-Windows to Linux.  I don't think that
there is a version of Mint directly derived from Debian 13 Trixie. 

Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Running `apt update` from Mint :

$ sudo apt-get update

Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia InRelease
Hit http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy InRelease                    
Hit http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia Release
Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB]
Get: 2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [128 kB]
Get: 3 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [127 kB]
Get: 4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [112 kB]
...

And:

$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Linuxmint
Description:    Linux Mint 21.3
Release:        21.3
Codename:       virginia

Jeff