> Trying to stay closer to Debian and further away from Conical.
My thoughts are similar, therefore LMDE is the best choice!
Canonical's policy for several years goes into a bad side and reminds Microsoft more and more:
- He pushes to users with his sick ideas ONLY because of a business, for example many violations of privacy, spying for Amazon, Unity, obsessive forcing snaps (because they completely control the repository) ... etc. Here read more: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Host_Operating_System_Selection#...
- Ubuntu with every new version is getting worse and has more and more bugs, And with them all Ubuntu derivatives
- The publishing cycle issuing new versions using the force method at a fixed time limit, even when it is not fully ready and has full of unprotected errors (only marketing counts)
- LTS promises support and fixing errors, but does not keep the word and there are security errors never fixed
- Additional broker between Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint increases the surface of attacks and errors in comparison to Debian -> Mint.
- Debian has been a bigger reputation from Ubuntu for many years. after all, Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian, only broken along the way!
- The LMDE team makes a fantastic job, but LMDE is poorly visible in the galaxy and is very underestimated.
LMDE = All the best of Debian + all the best from Mint!
I found their explanation here:
https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1764
https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/544
Still not solved after many years :(
Now I use Borg + Restic and I am happy
+ GUI for Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
+ GUI for Borg https://github.com/borgbase/vorta