enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Feb 28, 2022 19:58:54 GMT
Mint has released beta of LMDE5, based on Debian Bullseye, with Cinnamon Desktop (a gnome fork that Mint develops), in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
I'm downloading it now and will post some comments after I give it a try.
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Post by kev392 on Feb 28, 2022 21:09:43 GMT
Should be a good one.
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Post by ligoxi on Mar 1, 2022 13:07:29 GMT
Aint cinnamon de resource hungry, and mint in general bloated with apps? Still curious though if you intend to test it for your observations.
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Post by kev392 on Mar 1, 2022 18:45:52 GMT
I'd consider Cinnamon medium weight. I've seen various RAM usage reports on it. I do think Linux Mint gets the best use of it. Installing Cinnamon on another distro usually shows it using more RAM.
chibijon did a nice review of several desktops in the Feedback forum.
I generally see less than 600 MB on machines at startup. One of my machines is from 2008 where I mainly use Bodhi, but I also have Linux Mint Cinnamon on another partition and it runs well. It's a dual core 1.8 GHz with 4 GB RAM.
I do believe LMDE would run even better than regular Mint using slightly less RAM. It isn't supported for 5 years though. I think around 2 years for LMDE.
As far as bloat, Mint is under 2 GB for the iso, so it's certainly not what I'd consider egregious.
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 1, 2022 19:52:29 GMT
Yeah I've tried it now, not much to say, if you've seen Mint before, it's still the same! Very well polished, apps included for just about everything you can imagine, well integrated, simple menu and taskbar, etc. But yes, certainly not light. They recommend minimum 2GB memory, and it uses about 500MB on clean boot. But it is fast and responsive, more so than gnome or plasma. They are providing their own build of firefox from Mint repo. They also offering their own chromium, which is older version than bullseye-security offers. They have libreoffice 7.0 preinstalled - not the 7.3 from backports. I only found one real bug so far, some foreign text where it shouldn't be...    |
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Post by oblio on Mar 2, 2022 15:11:56 GMT
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 2, 2022 15:34:19 GMT
Turns out not a bug, just sample text, lorem ipsum as you suggested, my mistake.
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Post by kev392 on Mar 7, 2022 0:41:37 GMT
Just installed LMDE 5.
It works well and there was no problem with the install.
It does use more RAM than anticipated at startup on my 2008 HP.
LMDE 5 (Cinnamon): 625 MB
Linux Mint 19.3 (Cinnamon): 505 MB
Bodhi 6.0 (Moksha): 215 MB (after some use and closing all apps, it will be 405 MB).
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