squinky<p>Day 2 of running <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/LMDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LMDE</span></a> instead of Ubuntu.</p><p>The fact that this is built on Debian Bookworm (stable, 2023) is really starting to show. I couldn't get it to pair with my bluetooth mouse out of the box, but fortunately I know the cheat codes. I backported the version of `blueman` that's in Trixie (debian testing), and it popped up fine. The BT mouse is not optional because this damned Dell XPS trackpad just dies after a certain amount of uptime.</p><p>I'm using Flatpak for certain extremely corporate things like Spotify and Steam, and I installed Neovim from an AppImage because compiling nvim is less fun than dental surgery.</p><p>I wouldn't have had a problem with Ubuntu snaps if they weren't forcing core desktop functionality into them, like web browsers and things. In LMDE the killer app for these sorts of packages are when you want to do things that are newer than Debian provides, and have too many dependencies to provide via backport upgrades.</p><p>Overall though I like the Cinnamon desktop too. It feels like a nice mid-point between GNOME and XFCE, the latter of which I used for years just to avoid GNOME bloat. I'm pretty happy with all this.</p>