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Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?

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[–] skribe@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] fratermus@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] ardorhb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

oh nice, maybe ill give it a shot.