Install and Setup Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 "Faye"

UPDATE: The terminal menu that kept coming back was not a bug after all... It's a setting in the 'global' section of the main preferences. Duh! :)

Tried this one on my Ryzen 9 5950x processor with an AMD 6800xt card and it does not go to the gui. It seems as though the newer debian version is needed to get the amd patches. So I installed mint 21.2 as it uses the new ubuntu with the amd64 microcode. Just an FYI for all you team red owners out there.

Thank you, great stuff👍🏻 Like+Abo

I've been waiting patiently too, there Joe!

Thanks a bunch, Joe, and keep them coming 💪🤘🤗

I have a question regarding LMDE6 installation. I used LMDE5 before it and the installation had a driver manager. I clicked 1 button and it installed all the drivers for all my devices automatically. However this option (which was in the Lets begin screen) is now gone and I have no idea how to install the drivers. Can you tell me how to do it?

I always liked to listen & watch JC Vids. This is a quite special and it’s recent & very relevant. I absolutely loved it & bookmarked it for reference. There are quite a few gems but I appreciated creation and configuration of swap file.

Didn’t know that Debian reserves 5 GiB of swap space y default. Now I’ve to fix my Debian 12 Bookworm install 😢

I'm running LM ubuntu. Is there a way to upgrade to LMDE or will I have to do a clean install?

Joe, is there some advantage in installing LMDE 6 vs. just installing Debian 12 with Cinnamon Desktop Environment?

I've always thought that Debian comes with a root account unlocked because Debian is meant for users who know what that are doing, linux mint users not necessarily.

I use zram. And yes you always need some swap for the kernel. Alan Pope explained it on a BigDaddyLinuxLive stream once. You say you're an old fart, but if I remember correctly, you always used the dark theme on Linux Mint. After all the years on Windows, I don't like light themes anymore. So dark theme for me, always. I'm an old fart too BTW😉 But I'm not a Mint user. I prefer KDE Neon.

I have installed it in a VBox. I prefer the Mate environment, but you can get that from the software centre, simply install it as if it was a program.
So far (first day) I haven't noticed anything significant which is different. The actual Mint + Mate I have as my host, they've done a few small things to the base theme, and when you install the Mate desktop on LMDE it all looks slightly outdated. That's not any kind of show stopper, that's just an observation.
I am looking for things in my Mint + Mate which are not there or are significantly different, in the LMDE with Mate, but so far I haven't seen any. The kernel in the host has a higher version number,
6.2.0-33-generic #33~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Sep 7 10:33:52 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Linux LMDE 6.1.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.52-1 (2023-09-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
~ but that isn't vital unless you want to run it bare metal on some very recent or very obscure hardware.
I have toyed with the idea of trying a very recent kernel, but as long as this works then all I'd be doing, is looking for trouble.
Ok ~ I found one. The update ap doesn't have a View Kernels selection. I guess you get the one you've been given.
It would not be hard to install the Mainline Kernels ap and update it if you want, but I fear that'd break things, like the virtualbox guest additions, so I'll leave that well alone. I want to play with LMDE + Mate, not break it by installing the freshest compile that doesn't have functional headers yet, won't accept the VBox Guest properly.
By the same token, my Debian VM runs sid, but I'm not about to upgrade my LMDE to sid because I'm almost certain that'd break stuff, and I'm not here to deliberately break things.

I just ordered a 1TB SSD external drive to copy important files from my Mint 20.3 daily driver. The SSD should be here tomorrow, and once I get things copied over, I'll be fully installing LMDE 6, which I currently have running on my secondary desktop. Your video had a plethora of good tips, some I wasn't even aware of. Not only did I subscribe to your channel, I bookmarked this video for future reference. Thanks!!

This may help...
Once you've made the VM, before you start it, right click on it and open the "Settings" menu.
Then in the Settings window, go onto User Interface. Using the drop-down menu, set Visual State to "Scaled"
That may make the initial screen/image decently large from the get go until you can manually play with display settings / resolution / scaling in the OS.

You are welcome, Mr. Joe!!! Had you used the Beta, there would not have been any measurable changes between Beta and Live. I have been running the Beta (now Live) on several machines. During the entire Beta Period, there were very few updates. The main updates were to the cosmetics and Nemo. That's it!

I did not have trouble with Debian 12

The new LMDE 6 does not use Pulse Audio, and I am get distortion and out of sync audio. I installed Pulse and have to start it from the command line at each startup. I am running on real metal . You can check Pulse settings with "pacmd list-sinks | grep sample"

Loved The Nightfly :)

Another awesome "Joe" video. Thank You.