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It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.
(blog.linuxmint.com)
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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LMDE comes to mind
what advantage does it have over stock debian...?
All the nice bells and whistles that mint comes with: mostly cinnamon and the upgrade manager out-of-the-box. I've been using it for a few months, and I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.
I normally run debian but I ran LMDE for a couple years and thought it was nice.
This I really like Debian but on my everyday "production" system I run LMDE. I still have Debian in all it's glory but also all those small extra convince features and we'll thought out defaults.
oh nice, maybe ill give it a shot.
If you like running a Linux Mint workstation, its mostly the same but built on Debian instead of Ubuntu. It came from their goal of making a version of Mint that doesn't have any dependencies on Ubuntu.
afaik, it just looks prettier and gets Cinnamon sooner if you use that.
It still has all the normal debian quirks.