Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments
Jeffrey Walton <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 :
>
> $ 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
My mint box gives the same result from lsb_release but the repositories
it shows are all noble rather than jammy.
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