I've been meaning to give the thumbs up for Linux Mint Debian Edition because I installed it for our computer hater in late May and haven't heard one mutter, peep, complaint or hiccup since.
Haven't bothered to thoroughly aquaint myself with it because I haven't had to. I believe it's the Cinnamon desktop and it should run most or all Debian based software. MichaelL On Thu, Mar 5, 2026, 8:03 PM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Drew, > > More information?? Desktop to do what? I find myself running > everything in a web browser and an email client (yeah, I still use > Thunderbird). Boring truth told. My home lab is consumed by servers > running Folding At Home for the benefit of my power provider. > > I haven't even managed to upgrade my Debian 12 to 13... > > Howard > > On 3/5/26 18:32, Drew wrote: > > Hello, > > It's been a long time since I messed with Linux, specifically. I have > > some more recent experience with BSD, but not recently enough to affect > > my choices for a "modern" desktop. I have an older laptop I have decided > > I want to install Debian on, mainly for the purposes of running ham > > radio related software that won't run on MacOS, which is my main > > desktop. I pulled live images for Gnome and KDE, and have verified that > > everything on the laptop seems to work with the live image. > > > > My real, burning question is, are there compelling reasons to choose > > Gnome vs KDE, and is there something obvious I'm overlooking? I think > > the last desktop I ran on BSD was XFCE, but at the time I think that was > > specifically because it was fairly light weight and allowed easy virtual > > desktop changing. It might have been 20 years ago (and my last linux > > distro might have been Slackware) so I am confident things have changed. > > Any advice or shortcuts to sorting out which might ultimately work best > > for me would be appreciated. > > > > Drew > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug- > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ > > nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected] <mailto:nlug- > > [email protected]>. > > To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug- > > talk/ > > CAOS9axzOygaGWFT9StAocUAyES0SygaV6GFLpfB31bykscwWdg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/ > > CAOS9axzOygaGWFT9StAocUAyES0SygaV6GFLpfB31bykscwWdg%40mail.gmail.com? > > utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/cfc19d76-091b-4d9e-8220-80989d58c7a8%40vcch.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXaQL2FHQaw2WjNJAEW2zSz_7T1M6PCZe5KQiW73AEEKqA%40mail.gmail.com.
