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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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Well, what about just using Debian? It's a bit hassle, maybe, but if you have prior Linux experience, you'll be fine.
What hassle? Genuinely curious.
Well, for example, upgrading between releases is done by manually editing
sources.listand some other steps, and there's no easy tool for that. This is not difficult, exactly, but for people with little experience it's a bit daunting. Debian in general isn't the most new user friendly distro, in my experience. Distros like Mint and Ubuntu make the Debian experience slightly easier. Not that Debian is some esoteric system.