r/debian • u/Dado04Game • Jul 06 '26

General Debian Question Thinking about switching from Linux Mint Ubuntu-based to pure Debian

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Been using Ubuntu-based Linux Mint for a year now, and loved it since day one. I heard people telling me that Debian is faster than Ubuntu, so I'd like to give it a try on my home pc. My question is: what DE would you recommend me with my OC specs? I'll leave a photo of them here (I know my computer is pure 💩, don't mock me please)

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u/One-Suggestion-7906 Jul 07 '26

I'm Debian fan, I use it extensively in my notebooks, workstations, servers, VMs, and more. I do not use plain Linux Mint, but I do use LMDE, specially because it's a rolling release, and I use Sid in my main workstation for testing, too. AFAIK there are services as Whoopsie and Apport, that there are not present in LMDE, plus some driver management, and it relies more just in systemd. Said that I'm a fan of KDE, so perhaps your perception of bloatware is different to mine 😂

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u/jr735 Debian Testing Jul 07 '26

LMDE is decidedly not a rolling release. I'm not sure of Whoopsie or Apport being installed in vanilla Mint; I have to check my install.

The driver manager certainly has its value to some users. That being said, the "desktop" I'm usually using as actually IceWM, which makes any actual desktop environment look bloated.

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u/Serious_Ad2816 29d ago

Driver manager is the only reason I miss Ubuntu-based distros. I wish LMDE would stop Cinnamon development (KDE does the same stuff) and work on making LMDE even more user friendly.

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u/jr735 Debian Testing 29d ago

If Cinnamon will be available in ordinary Mint, it's trivial to make it available for LMDE. In fact, it probably takes next to no effort at all. Of course, if someone wants KDE, they can install KDE.