9/2/2023 0 Comments Mint loginLinux Mint relies on Ubuntu packages to make their system fundamentally work, right? This seems to have occasional consequences: So this is why some say Linux Mint isn't a full true distribution, no matter how good or bad it works. Linux Uprising ended up on numbers where 0.7% came from Mints repos, 99.3% from Ubuntu's. linuxmint dot com/ does not look like packages. Likewise, almost all of the packages in Ubuntu are rebuilt from Debian.Ī count committed via the method described at Linuxuprising dot com some time back counted all packages including original versions and those higher in the updates, security and backports, no PPAs added, and both i386 and amd64 (the Linux Mint repositories come from packages. com does not directly tie to Ubuntu but many packages could have been rebuilt from Ubuntu. So it looks that the bulk of packages in a Linux Mint install come actually directly from Ubuntus repositories. Multiverse - Software restricted by copyright or legal issues.īecause if they only just took advantage of Debian's repositories, they would end up with very old versions of software? Is it also not the case that Linux Mint just straight up uses Ubuntu's SERVERS (from where the users download from)? Restricted - Proprietary drivers for devices. Universe - Community-maintained free and open-source software. Main - Canonical-supported free and open-source software. I know how open source software way works, but is it not the case that Ubuntu has their own repositories, to which they put packages also from Debian's repositories for starters, but their own repositories are in own servers: That's kinda how open source software works. Quoting: vengador4201 Quoting: dziadulewiczA big hand to Ubuntu also: Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS and Mint uses Ubuntu's software repositories without any compensationĪnd Ubuntu uses Debian's repositories, though I don't know for sure that it's "without compensation". Last edited by reedlove on 17 July 2023 at 3:53 pm UTC I feel like I finally found in Mint and Cinnamon a great balance between having a really good/nice, stable end-user experience for daily computing needs while still retaining the power and versatility that Linux provides. I've used kde/gnome/xfce/enlightenment/openbox/icewm/pantheon/gnustep and many others. I've been kickin' around in Linux since 1999 starting with Red Hat 6/Corel Linux, then Slackware, then Debian, then Ubuntu, Arch, Elementary OS, Arch again, and now Linux Mint. Of course, you can take this all with a grain of salt because it's personal opinion, blah blah blah. Luckily they even address the snap issue by disabling snaps by default and are instead embracing the universally inclusive flatpak architecture in addition to tried and true apt repositories. Even though I wish that they would move away from leaning on Ubuntu for the base, due to some of the less open practices Canonical are engaged in regarding snaps etc., having that widely supported infrastructure is ultimately beneficial to users on many levels. When it comes to desktop/GUI stuff, Linux Mint Cinnamon is a super polished/consistent/intuitive experience that doesn't get in your way with a bunch of flashy/unnecessary bloat or poorly implemented UX/UI paradigms. In terms of file operations etc., I probably use the terminal for ~98% of everything that I do. So I've been using Linux Mint *Cinnamon Edition* for well over a year now, coming from Arch with Gnome.
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