On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote:
> At Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:12:06 +0000 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Subject: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > Debian 13 Trixie release notes: > > > > [QUOTE] > > > > The user can choose among different desktop environments to try: GNOME, > KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and Xfce. > > > > [/QUOTE] > > > > Link: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809 > > > > May I know which desktop environment is the closest resemblance to > Windows > > 10 or 11? > > I don't know which of the above mentioned desktop environments has the > "closest resemblance to Windows 10 or 11". The common "wisdom" of the > Internet (or at least the YouTube subset) is that Mint Cinnamon is what is > recomended for people moving from MS-Windows to Linux. I don't think that > there is a version of Mint directly derived from Debian 13 Trixie. Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Running `apt update` from Mint : $ sudo apt-get update Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia InRelease Hit http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy InRelease Hit http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia Release Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB] Get: 2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [128 kB] Get: 3 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [127 kB] Get: 4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [112 kB] ... And: $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Linuxmint Description: Linux Mint 21.3 Release: 21.3 Codename: virginia Jeff
