For those who don’t know what I mean:

target hardware for LMDE is an 8 year old nuked mac notebook with an intel chip.

I’ve always used xfce because it’s easy on the hardware and I don’t care that much about looks, but functionality.

I’ve never used cinnamon and I don’t know if it’s going to slow the notebook much.

Neither do I know if I can install LMDE and then change the DE to xfce.

Is LMDE being updated like the other mints? LMDE is version 6, whereas the other DE are version 21.3

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    3·
    5 months ago

    Debian has XFCE so yes.

    But the “Linux mint” part really just is their preset configs.

    Just install Debian with XFCE if you want

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    LMDE does not provide a XFCE version, you can however install XFCE after installing LMDE. Cinnamon required in my experience twice as much recourses as XFCE. LMDE is based on Debian while regular Mint is based on Ubuntu. The releases are linked to those of the bases, but LMDE gets the Mint specific updates slightly later. The numbers are different because Ubuntu’s latest version is 24.4 while Debian is at version 12, so it wouldn’t make sense to have the same numbering for the corresponding Linux mint version.

    • merompetehla@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      makes sense, but I don’t understand why LMDE is marked as 6 when the newest stable debian is 12.5 (same applies to linux mint and ubuntu, now at 24.4) shouldn’t it be LMDE 12 or 12.5?

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        My bad, I realized my comment reads a lot differently than what I was trying to say. Linux mints release schedule is not bound to Ubuntu. Linux mint gets a new major version every two years (although this is not strictly set) while LMDE usually gets a new major update with the new Debian version, but because Debian has been around for a lot longer than LMDE the number is higher.

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    There isn’t an ISO for Linux Mint with Xfce.
    What I would try:

    • Boot the normal ISO
    • open a terminal instead of starting the installation
    • enter sudo live-installer-expert-mode

    It should boot the Debian expert installer, which lets you choose what DE you want to install. I haven’t tested this on LMDE, though.

    Otherwise, install LMDE normally. Then do sudo apt install xfce4 and sudo apt purge cinnamon* muffin* nemo*.