On Friday, August 29th, 2025 at 9:12 AM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:12:06 +0000 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Subject: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments >>> >>> Good day from Singapore, >>> >>> Debian 13 Trixie release notes: >>> >>> [QUOTE] >>> >>> The user can choose among different desktop environments to try: GNOME, KDE >>> Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and Xfce. >>> >>> [/QUOTE] >>> >>> Link: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809 >>> >>> May I know which desktop environment is the closest resemblance to Windows >>> 10 or 11? >> >> I don't know which of the above mentioned desktop environments has the >> "closest resemblance to Windows 10 or 11". The common "wisdom" of the >> Internet (or at least the YouTube subset) is that Mint Cinnamon is what is >> recomended for people moving from MS-Windows to Linux. I don't think that >> there is a version of Mint directly derived from Debian 13 Trixie. > > Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Running `apt update` from Mint : > > $ sudo apt-get update > Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia InRelease > Hit http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy InRelease > Hit http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia Release > Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB] > Get: 2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [128 kB] > Get: 3 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [127 kB] > Get: 4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 > Metadata [112 kB] > ... > > And: > > $ lsb_release -a > Distributor ID: Linuxmint > Description: Linux Mint 21.3 > Release: 21.3 > Codename: virginia > Jeff Nice information. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individuals Singapore
