Installing Linux #Mint #LMDE. Looks sleek, although too simple for me used to KDE, but that's fine, since I'm not their target audience.
The first thing I notice is that, since they don't seem to do point releases, I have to update 117 packages OOtB. That's 728MiB that are not included in the 3GiB image. Maybe not the best for people with bad connections.
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Comes with #FlatPak by default, which I hope is better than `snap`. But I already notice that for instance krita is going to be installed from there, when a Debian derivative should be able to install it from packages. Did I gain anything here?
It seems to have a lot of user friendly help, but I found a couple of things weird. Mint proposes both a forum and a Matrix based chat. But there doesn't seem to be any international support there.
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But the forums do have a French channel, so that's good.
It's getting late, I'll continue tomorrow.
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RE: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/116144659844252409
It also has #LibreWolf from #Flatpack, even when even Debian has a semi official way to install it; see below.
I also wonder if the user needs to know the source of the package. Would it be important to know later?
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I installed #KDE on it. Besides some weird messages form `ibus` it went all fine. But the 18GiB disk is full now. TBF I no longer know how much my system uses. I used to have a separate 15GiB partition, but only because upgrades meant reinstalling, mostly.
Ever since I switched to #Debian around ~2000, I no longer needed the separation. At some point I just stopped creating separate partitions; I only have root and swap, which exactly what more user friendly distros like #Mint do.
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Marcos Dione