Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

[Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>]

At Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:11:26 -0400 noloader@gmail.com wrote:

>
> 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 :

Yes, the main Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu, but there is also a version
of Linux Mint that is presently derived from Debian 12.


>
> $ 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
>
>

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