Comments on: Top 7 Debian-Based Distros to Try If You Want an Ubuntu Alternative

By: Miguel Leiva-Gomez

Miguel Leiva-Gomez — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 21:26:51 +0000

In reply to James.

Indeed. The dependency on Ubuntu isn’t so deeply grafted that it would be so difficult to switch repositories.

It’s also not easy to imagine a scenario where the distro just gets abandoned, even if Canonical decides to go belly-up overnight. I don’t think such a doomsday scenario would be so catastrophic.

By: James

James — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:18:23 +0000

In reply to Peter. Mint already has a Debian edition. I think you are making it sound a lot harder than it would be to change. Look at Solus and how quickly Ikey had that up and running.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 23:46:14 +0000

I would imagine that most who choose to read this article based on the headline will be frustrated with the false or misleading content and be constantly looking for the next error.
Newbies won’t know why they should choose a Debian based distribution over Ubuntu, so would not read this..I understand that Ubuntu is based on Debian, with their own customised components, and most of the authors listed distro’s depend on Ubuntu and not directly on Debian, such that if Ubuntu disappeared, there will be significant problems in most of these distributions restructuring to use Debian as a base…could take years.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 23:34:57 +0000

In reply to RetiredIT. I absolutely agree, and what floored me was not substituting LMDE if they wanted a Mint entry....

By: RetiredIT

RetiredIT — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:35:06 +0000

With the exception of MX Linux and Deepin, all the rest of the distros you list are based on Ubuntu AND Debian. Your article title is misleading!

By: James

James — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:36:21 +0000

Ubuntu Mate was my chosen OS over standard Ubuntu. Yet the insistence on Snap packages over native packages pushed me to Mint Mate. I don’t like the Mint themes, but found I was able to install the standard Mate themes from the official repository, so I am now happy with my Mint installation.

I also agree with nama nama. You don’t need the terminal for much anymore. I am a total GUI guy. I am a poor speller and worse typist. I use one command that I copy and paste.
sudo dpkg –configure -a
and I only need that if an upgrade is interrupted somehow, like a crash or freeze, which seldom happens, and for some reason Synaptic cannot fix the problem.

By: nama nama

nama nama — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:49:17 +0000

wrong MX does not need a terminal for pretty much anything – I KNOW!!!! you are very wrong sorry to say.