Brilliant video i. I've kicked arch into touch & installed lmde5 wish I would have done it months ago. It's a piece of cake to install & use. Stable and fast my new daily driver
Great to have you back! One addition: the software store in Linux Mint has Flathub enabled ootb. So, while running Debian, it is a one click process to install the latest version of some software should you need it (such as LibreOffice). In the manual disk configuration it is of course possible to apply Btrfs, which is great with the pre-installed Timeshift.
Welcome back!! Great video which really shows how lovely and practical this distro is. A great intro for anyone. Like your choice of colours ha! Check out Mabox Linux, Stephen, by the way for something completely different but SO clever (uses open box so brilliantly well!). Hope to see you again soon... Thanks!
I've been running this for -- well since it was released in BETA and LOVE IT!!! it's FAST- easy to work with- stable- and just been wonderful.... I have looked around for more "fancy" version of something- but the fancy ones all have so many drawbacks-- I thnk I'll just stick with this..
Thanks for this! Hey, can you point me to a video where you do a partition during install? There are so many install vids, I have no idea which one can guide me through that process. Thanks for all your educational videos, very much appreciated for us newbies!
Thx Stephen, but you should use btrfs, if you want to use timeshift! LMDE5 creates automatically the subvolumes @ and @home, you have only to correct the options in fstab after booting in your new system, I recommend noatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,compress=zstd,discard=async,subvol=@ respectively =@home to write into fstab boot options. Aditionally I'm using zram instead of a swap-Partition. LMDE 5 is a great system!
Installed when version 5 was released, just to see what it is like. I wont be going back to the ubuntu based version again as I am more than happy with LMDE5.
Tried it but went back to Mint 19.3. It is probably my skill level but I could not get WINE to work for my use of Quicken. They also need to include the Brave browser in the package manager.
Plain Debian with Cinnamon on top is the road I would take. :) Linux Mint tends to be much more beginner friendly, polished out of the box, and comes with additional themes and apps...
I run lmde for my stable work machine and arch with a cinnamon desktop for my gaming PC. I haven't really noticed a difference other than proton not always updating as quick. I wanted to try fedora cinnamon, but it never seems to have or takes forever to search/show programs I look for in the software manager besides them removing the right mouse click
I stopped halfway through, as the real beginner would actually run into trouble with ethernet, e v e r y single time, with Ubunti based Mint, with a realtek network adapter. Worked out of the box for you then, Stephen?
Ah, hardware. :) There are countless manufacturers and variations out in the wild. You'll never know what's supported for sure unless you try a bare metal installation. This channel, like most other Linux channels, demonstrates distributions inside a virtual environment to keep things fair between vendors. For example, my 2021 AMD Ryzen 9 machine requires kernel >= 5.17.1 for all the components to fully work. For me, that basically narrows bare metal installs down to Arch-based and Fedora 36 at this time. On a very rare occasion, a YT Linux channel will demonstrate a physical install on a very particular piece of hardware, typically a laptop - especially a gaming laptop to show how the graphics drivers are configured, etc. I'm now set up for doing this, but I just need to be able to afford buying the latest and greatest most popular gaming laptop in order to make a video worthwhile... LMDE 5 is based on Debian Bullseye, *not* Ubuntu. :) Thanks for watching!
I don't understand the logic behind Linux. Sure it is easy to install but it is impossible to use as a daily driver. Compared to Windows (which just works in most use cases) Linux lets you install it but try connecting to a local network drive (which your other linux machine can see and use) and all you get is errors. You try to duplicate the config of the first machine but it still fails. Then you scan the internet for solutions and days editing .conf files and re-booting. In the end you just stick to your your old machine with an ancient distro on it. I use Linux but will never recommend it to anyone unless they enjoy sudo and root editing of files to make BASIC functions work. Everyone is dazzled by rounded corners and dark modes, meanwhile nothing works unless you just want to surf and read emails. I'f windows wasn't spyware I'd switch back. No distro maker tests their products for ease of use.
Thanks for sharing! Conversely, you can also ask why Windows makes it so hard to integrate with Linux? :) LMDE has SMB/Windows Networking "built-in" so you should be able to connect using smb://ip-address/share-name with the correct credentials. I just tried it on a local network share with no issues. Good luck and thanks for watching!
@@JM-tj5qm Wow. How thick can you be? Learn to comprehend what you read and don't put words in my mouth. Most people use a computer to accomplish something. If my computer fails to do what I want then something somewhere is wrong. I am NOT an expert but a plain typical user with a use case in mind. Linux makes it very hard to get BASIC things done, unless you KNOW linux already. It is unfriendly to beginners and assholes on the internet (like you) just re-enforce the notion that linux is for EXPERTS and you will not get help from anyone but you will get attacked because you cannot master Linux at first install. I use Linux because I don't want to use Windows or Apple as I see them as spyware and I will NEVER fully control them. On the other hand, they work right out of the box and help is freely available everywhere. Unless you pretend to be a Linux fanboi you get no help. You can scan the web and find conflicting articles with the solution being "I don't know why, but this solution worked, sorry it fails to work for you". LM 18 did everything I wanted after install. Networking worked as expected. Try LM 19 and it fails. Spend days of researching and re-writing files and it works. 'upgrade' to LM 20 and it breaks again, rinse and repeat. Rather than the makers fix the problem to make the code universally work version to version, they seem to concentrate on new shit like 'rounded corners and dark modes'. All distros i've tried behave like this. So taking your advice, I'll just accept that I cannot use my network but will sing the praises of Linux as editing config files scattered across the machine is the norm (1980 called). I'll enjoy the eye candy and look forward to long nights of trying to get it do basic things. I'll revel in the spped the error messages pop on to the screen, etc. Linux is a good OS when it works. It is stable and is 100% controllable by the user. It sucks that you need to be an expert to configure it and the path to godhood is paved with assholes. Thanks JM.
You have a different idea of what a basic function is. Setting up a local network is not what I would call a basic function. And Linux is not an it. There are hundreds of different distributions. Some make networking much easier than others
LMDE should really be mints main focus. Ubuntu is going further and further away from the ideals of mint. Change sooner rather than later.
Agreed!
AMEN- don't need UBUNCRAP any more..
Brilliant video i. I've kicked arch into touch & installed lmde5 wish I would have done it months ago. It's a piece of cake to install & use. Stable and fast my new daily driver
It is a nice and solid distro for sure - thanks for watching!
Great to have you back! One addition: the software store in Linux Mint has Flathub enabled ootb. So, while running Debian, it is a one click process to install the latest version of some software should you need it (such as LibreOffice). In the manual disk configuration it is of course possible to apply Btrfs, which is great with the pre-installed Timeshift.
True story, thanks for sharing!
Welcome back!! Great video which really shows how lovely and practical this distro is. A great intro for anyone. Like your choice of colours ha! Check out Mabox Linux, Stephen, by the way for something completely different but SO clever (uses open box so brilliantly well!). Hope to see you again soon... Thanks!
Thanks so much Karen, will do! :)
I've been running this for -- well since it was released in BETA and LOVE IT!!! it's FAST- easy to work with- stable- and just been wonderful.... I have looked around for more "fancy" version of something- but the fancy ones all have so many drawbacks-- I thnk I'll just stick with this..
Can't really think of anything more stable than Debian Stable! :)
stable just means static/frozen and has nothing to do with system stability
@@Zero11s HMM- "stable"-"frozen" -"static".... nothing to do with STABLE hun?? somebody needs a dictionary!!
Nice video Stephen, btw, we miss your videos lately, thanks.
Thanks, glad you like it!
Thanks for this! Hey, can you point me to a video where you do a partition during install? There are so many install vids, I have no idea which one can guide me through that process. Thanks for all your educational videos, very much appreciated for us newbies!
I've done it plenty for Arch, but not specifically for Debian-based systems - will add to my list of things to do!
Thx Stephen, but you should use btrfs, if you want to use timeshift! LMDE5 creates automatically the subvolumes @ and @home, you have only to correct the options in fstab after booting in your new system, I recommend noatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,compress=zstd,discard=async,subvol=@ respectively =@home to write into fstab boot options. Aditionally I'm using zram instead of a swap-Partition. LMDE 5 is a great system!
Excellent, and thanks for sharing!
Installed when version 5 was released, just to see what it is like. I wont be going back to the ubuntu based version again as I am more than happy with LMDE5.
Right on! :)
Gracias!
Glad you liked it!
Great reviwe
Glad you like it!
Tried it but went back to Mint 19.3. It is probably my skill level but I could not get WINE to work for my use of Quicken. They also need to include the Brave browser in the package manager.
Fan of Brave myself! :)
Brave broswer is in the Software manager as a Flathub.
why not just run Debian with Cinnamon desktop? What is advantage to run Mint>Debian>cinnamon over Debian>cinnamon?
Plain Debian with Cinnamon on top is the road I would take. :) Linux Mint tends to be much more beginner friendly, polished out of the box, and comes with additional themes and apps...
I run lmde for my stable work machine and arch with a cinnamon desktop for my gaming PC. I haven't really noticed a difference other than proton not always updating as quick.
I wanted to try fedora cinnamon, but it never seems to have or takes forever to search/show programs I look for in the software manager besides them removing the right mouse click
Thanks for sharing!
I stopped halfway through, as the real beginner would actually run into trouble with ethernet, e v e r y single time, with Ubunti based Mint, with a realtek network adapter. Worked out of the box for you then, Stephen?
Ah, hardware. :) There are countless manufacturers and variations out in the wild. You'll never know what's supported for sure unless you try a bare metal installation. This channel, like most other Linux channels, demonstrates distributions inside a virtual environment to keep things fair between vendors. For example, my 2021 AMD Ryzen 9 machine requires kernel >= 5.17.1 for all the components to fully work. For me, that basically narrows bare metal installs down to Arch-based and Fedora 36 at this time.
On a very rare occasion, a YT Linux channel will demonstrate a physical install on a very particular piece of hardware, typically a laptop - especially a gaming laptop to show how the graphics drivers are configured, etc. I'm now set up for doing this, but I just need to be able to afford buying the latest and greatest most popular gaming laptop in order to make a video worthwhile...
LMDE 5 is based on Debian Bullseye, *not* Ubuntu. :) Thanks for watching!
I don't understand the logic behind Linux. Sure it is easy to install but it is impossible to use as a daily driver. Compared to Windows (which just works in most use cases) Linux lets you install it but try connecting to a local network drive (which your other linux machine can see and use) and all you get is errors. You try to duplicate the config of the first machine but it still fails. Then you scan the internet for solutions and days editing .conf files and re-booting. In the end you just stick to your your old machine with an ancient distro on it. I use Linux but will never recommend it to anyone unless they enjoy sudo and root editing of files to make BASIC functions work. Everyone is dazzled by rounded corners and dark modes, meanwhile nothing works unless you just want to surf and read emails. I'f windows wasn't spyware I'd switch back. No distro maker tests their products for ease of use.
Thanks for sharing! Conversely, you can also ask why Windows makes it so hard to integrate with Linux? :) LMDE has SMB/Windows Networking "built-in" so you should be able to connect using smb://ip-address/share-name with the correct credentials. I just tried it on a local network share with no issues. Good luck and thanks for watching!
@@JM-tj5qm Wow. How thick can you be? Learn to comprehend what you read and don't put words in my mouth. Most people use a computer to accomplish something. If my computer fails to do what I want then something somewhere is wrong. I am NOT an expert but a plain typical user with a use case in mind. Linux makes it very hard to get BASIC things done, unless you KNOW linux already. It is unfriendly to beginners and assholes on the internet (like you) just re-enforce the notion that linux is for EXPERTS and you will not get help from anyone but you will get attacked because you cannot master Linux at first install.
I use Linux because I don't want to use Windows or Apple as I see them as spyware and I will NEVER fully control them. On the other hand, they work right out of the box and help is freely available everywhere.
Unless you pretend to be a Linux fanboi you get no help. You can scan the web and find conflicting articles with the solution being "I don't know why, but this solution worked, sorry it fails to work for you". LM 18 did everything I wanted after install. Networking worked as expected. Try LM 19 and it fails. Spend days of researching and re-writing files and it works. 'upgrade' to LM 20 and it breaks again, rinse and repeat. Rather than the makers fix the problem to make the code universally work version to version, they seem to concentrate on new shit like 'rounded corners and dark modes'. All distros i've tried behave like this.
So taking your advice, I'll just accept that I cannot use my network but will sing the praises of Linux as editing config files scattered across the machine is the norm (1980 called). I'll enjoy the eye candy and look forward to long nights of trying to get it do basic things. I'll revel in the spped the error messages pop on to the screen, etc. Linux is a good OS when it works. It is stable and is 100% controllable by the user. It sucks that you need to be an expert to configure it and the path to godhood is paved with assholes. Thanks JM.
You have a different idea of what a basic function is. Setting up a local network is not what I would call a basic function. And Linux is not an it. There are hundreds of different distributions. Some make networking much easier than others