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

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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    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*.