LMDE on KVM/QEMU

[PuppyHome]

After reading on this board about LMDE I decided to install in a virtual machine just to see what the fuss is all about. (posting from said set up).

Resources given: 5Gigs of RAM, 5 CPU's.

I've been using Mint Ubuntu based for quite a while as a daily driver because it just works and as I'm getting older and been distro hopping for about a million years I can't be bothered anymore to debug and solve problems every day IF that would occur at all.

Although I am quite satisfied with Mint 22 by heart I'm a huge Debian fan so I gave LMDE a shot last week to see if it could replace Mint 22.

I am impressed. Even in this VM set up it is even faster and it feels more "rigid" and stable than my bare metal install of Mint 22. Not bashing 22 at all but LMDE just feels far more reactive.
I realized yesterday that I've been using it already as a daily driver under the guise of a test run. This thing is awesome! Seriously thinking of switching.

(Posted this just to inform the dev team for the sake of feedback).

Could this be the future of Mint?

 

[Condobloke]

Could this be the future of Mint?

Yes, it could

LMDE7 will likely spell out the future

 

[PuppyHome]

I've just installed LMDE on a low spec laptop. An old HP.

i3 processor (4 cores), 4Gigs of ram. Just to do test with old hardware and you know what? It runs like a charm. Fast, snappy, responsive and a very stable feel.
The only thing which would run any faster than this is any Puppy and EasyOs. Hats off to the devs.

 

[Trynna3]

Welcome in da club. I chose LMDE as my very first distro an so far so good, although there is a room for improvement. And I used it the other way round: installed QEMU/KVM into it and Windows11... it worked for a while and then it was broken when I wanted to use it again.
Still on LMDE, but using a virtualbox. Not sure whether some update broke something in the middle, I haven't been using the VM frequently. I just couldn't make it work anymore.

LMDE is snappy, skipping the middle man. But the middle man provides support for more packages ready made. On LMDE we might need to investigate more how to make some things work.

 

[PuppyHome]

@trycatchbot I get what you are saying. Fact is I don't really need 'more' packages, the more minimalist the better. So LMDE fits my needs and it just works which is the most important part. Also I don't want to fiddle around to make things work or keep them working, ya know?

Very happy and content with this one. It's a keeper for sure.

 

[Condobloke]

@trycatchbot I get what you are saying

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