Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments
On Friday, August 29th, 2025 at 9:41 AM, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:11:26 -0400 noloader@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:10PM 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.
Any differences between the 2 variants?
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individuals Singapore
>
> > $ 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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