Linux Distro Reviews: Linux Mint 22
Quoting: Linux Distro Reviews: Linux Mint 22 —
For the past year, I have been a diehard LMDE user. To be fair, it’s still my favorite version of Mint and, therefore, my favorite distro, period. I like a Debian base, and I like that LMDE is a community project based on a community project, as opposed to Mint 22 being a community project based on a commercial distro.
Nonetheless, my experience with Mint 22 has been so good that I’m staying with it, despite preferring LMDE. I find Ubuntu’s kernel strategy and Mesa updates more in line with my hardware needs at the moment. And there’s no denying the benefit of using the version of the distro that is the main focus of its maintainers, as opposed to using what is essentially a side project.
What about the future? It’s hard to say what the future holds, either for my own usage or for Mint in general. Some believe the Mint team will eventually be forced to switch to LMDE as the mainline edition if Ubuntu continues its “Snapification” of more and more internal components and makes other decisions the Mint team disagrees with.
In fact, Clem has directly acknowledged Ubuntu’s increased usage of Snaps, saying he doesn’t believe the trend will continue.