LMDE 5

LMDE 5 was just released and in this video I am going to install it using the btrfs file system and zram.
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[@sharktooh76]

LinuxMint should drop ubuntu and make LMDE their main edition.

[@bobbyfried7478]

I 100% agree

[@indradyumnadasa8155]

same thoughts here bro!

[@robmease2663]

its solid best distro ive used ,,, better than regular mint

[@simont1974]

Thank you for this video. I followed your guide and now have a wonderful LMDE 5 with BTRFS and zram on my thinkpad. Long time subscriber to the channel first time i have commented. Always enjoy your videos, keep up the good work, we all appreciate what you do. Peace

[@flow5718]

Thank you so much for making this video, I am a huge fan of Debian and Cinnamon DE and Btrfs. This is like a dream come true, my Endeavour/Arch setup broke last day when I updated it after not using the system for two months. No more rolling releases for me!

[@roodownunder3224]

Excellent clarity in installation process using BTRFS file system and setting up ZRAM. Thank you

[@LuneLovehearn]

Good to see such release! The mint community is happy to see it featured on your channel 💜

[@aldormc4252]

Been looking forward to your review of this precisely with wanting to learn more about btrfs timeshift advantages. You hit the spot. And I never knew about zram. Thanks for helping me level up twice!

[@josephchillemi7523]

Yeah, same exact story with me as well!

[@Appalling68]

Hey Ermanno. Wow, I was hoping you'd take a look at LMDE 5. I've got it installed in a VM but it's really nice to see your take on this too. Great video!

[@mylinuxgr5050]

This is best timing! I am about to distrohop into LMDE5 in my main production PC and this video gives so many ideas! Thank you!

[@mylinuxgr5050]

Update: I just followed step by step your suggestions and everything worked fine. Many thanks!

[@NOPerative]

Agree with Aldo below about the zram implementation taking things to another level; first time I've seen it employed in a "distro" demo/showcase. As usual, good stuff.

[@thenoseplays2488]

This was super helpful and I was finally able to get it to work. I am fairly certain it was not having EFI option checked in VB that caused me to hang after each install. Thanks again!

[@GamingMaus123]

You have the best timing haha i was just looking into LMDE yesterday

[@xlinearoperator]

LMDE 5 is great! For some reason I too really like the cinnamon desktop! Nice video.

[@user-mq1dk8hm1i]

Just pure linux knowledge pouring in my head. Ty

[@metalmick99]

Thanks for a wonderful, informative, and valuable clip. I'm considering a change of OS from MX-KDE and LMDE 5 is now on my list.

[@taidee]

Thank you very much sir, another quality video edition to the wiki.

[@gatoloco3105]

Excellent video, learned something new.

[@amarmisra9582]

Definitely, I will try this Archman Ermanno..Debian is my favourite, thanks for the effort.

[@saidneder41]

Thank you Ermanno!

[@dragonek_gnu_linux_pl]

i switched from arch linux gnome 42 to lmde 5 and im very happy with it. Linux Mint is been my furst distribution what i choosed and stays for a long time. Its 5 years ago from now and after i back im remember that time when i switched from windows to linux. The best decision :)

[@szeljakrobert7875]

Very useful video, thanks!

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

I like your channel. SUBSCRIBED.

[@volosnesqui9410]

best debian tutorial hands downl!!!

[@TrustJesusToday]

LMDE5 CINNAMON is about as good as desktops get. I started with Windows 3.1 in 1993 and went through torment as IT and instructor in Microsoft for over two decades. LMDE5, Ubuntu Budgie and Kubuntu are awesome products.

[@senil5906]

Great, thnx !

[@duduonyu5810]

Thank you for speaking in English!! Very good!!

[@bertboer2936]

What I miss in LMDE 5 compared to Mint 20.3, is the Driver Manager app (in Settings: Administration) to install network and NVidia drivers. For first time users this will be a hurdle.

[@eflinux]

Very good point.

[@Jay42207]

how would you do that? I'm a newbie and I can't figure it out or where to look

[@jktolford8272]

@@Jay42207 I'm still looking at linux, not even a newbie. It *seems* that upon installation regular ubuntu-based Linux Mint has a gui process ( the Driver Manager app in Settings: Administration) that guides you thru the installation of needed drivers. LMDE does *not* so you you have to have more knowledge of which drivers you need & what commands in the terminal will get them. I won't even attempt LMDE w/o trying Mint first. If LMDE *is* to replace ubuntu Mint it really needs this feature.

[@BennoKushnir]

Are the options in /etc/fstab specifically for the btrfs-filesystem or would "noatime,space_cache,ssd,discard=async" also work with ext4?

[@tobiasschmidt3978]

No, absolutly not. When you do that, you will fail too boot. defaults,noatime should be fine for ext4.

[@BoB-mb3fw]

@@tobiasschmidt3978 Hi. Is any advantage btrfs vs ext4? I got Debian 11 and installed default(ext4) but my Timeshift is default btrfs. By the way my static filesystem looks completely mess to compare with yours! I got error on my ext4??? $ cat /etc/fstab # UUID=be460066-2be7-4e0d-9d8c-74c91f23d3de / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=c5846a61-8674-48aa-b8b7-e2a1217d4f45 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/4FC5920B7EAA9768 /mnt/4FC5920B7EAA9768 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 LABEL=Timeshift /mnt/Timeshift auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

[@thenoseplays2488]

Quick question. If you use an nvme drive would you still use input the ssd option? Or is there another command? I am having g trouble finding a comprehensive list of fstab options. The ones I can find are incomplete and don't even have some of the options you are inputting here.

[@chuckstrut]

I have been a fan since lmde 3 I see more distributions jumping off Ubuntu to Debian again. I hope lmde 5 is the distribution that make mint stop all Ubuntu bases and focus on lmde as it's only base. Having said that it's alot more work to get it polished but the base is more stable.

[@KimmeU]

Now I also followed this guide and installed this Linux Mint Debian Edition. First time using btrfs and zram-tools as swap, ever. Does the ssd flag also improve SSD M2 harddrives?

[@se3000]

Is the space_cache mount option needed? Doesn't the kernel include the default mount option space_cache=v1?

[@revolution6609]

A pc in peace is a pc without Windows.

[@Aylych]

Grand LMDE wonderfully GNU-Linux distribution

[@johnosborne1151]

Ermanno, Thank-you for the video. Your presentation and style are inviting. My attempt to manually install LMDE 5 did not go well on my side. After installation finished and upon restart, a grub rescue prompt appeared. Lord save us! Decided to reinstall Elsie again, instead of rescuing grub (out of league). The second time around a few changes were made, such as; assignment and then the last summary page appeared. Along with the target drive for Elsie, other drives appeared on this page. Which Included; a raid array and Gentoo disk (my daily drives) and another drive with Linux loaded. The summary indicated that changes would be made to their partitions. Not wanting to mess with partitions on my core disks, the install process was aborted. Is it normal for other drives in the machine to be listed and their partitions modified? if not, does it make sense to pull all (other) drives in the machine before installing Elsie? Or the reverse; leave all drives in the machine and let the installation process manage grub files between them? Thank-you for considering my query, john

[@ricardo072]

It would be great to have the choice of pick up XFCE or other DEs... Thanks a lot Ermanno

[@metahand7188]

I hope Linux Mint team release an XFCE version of LMDE.

[@SprunkCovers]

You can easly install the XFCE (or Mate) desktop with the terminal, it is very easy to do because it is one command however you need around 2 gb of free space You can even install KDE if you want, I do have LMDE 5 with Mate on another computer right now and no problems so far

[@tiomkinnyborg2289]

Thank you for your guide. I followed it and it works. I currently run LM20 and after months of tinkering I managed to make it see other devices on my network. Using the same editing of smb.conf this new version of mint will not see anything on the net work. Why is it that any 'upgrade' of Linux breaks things that the old versions did out of the box? LM18 saw network drives. 19 never worked. 20 managed after months of tinkering and now it's back to square one with this new version. Is networking too hard for linux to master? Why are rounded corners more important than getting work done? I've gone back to my old version.

[@janosch1097]

10:19 I have never heard of the `ssd` option and tried to find out about it in the man pages and searching the internet. Do you have any info on where to find more info about it?

[@eflinux]

manpages.org/btrfs-mount/5

[@PatrickConstant]

Interesting. But I prefer Debian; the Linux Pachamama (Linux Mother). And it's easy ton change desktop for another than Gnome. But Mint has a really efficient support (specially in France). So it's why it could be a very good choice. In my case, I allready use a stable distribution (Debian) and I test new features / versions on Manjaro with the rolling update.

[@nanabrimpong3485]

@eflinux hi I need your help. I installed linux mint deviants edition 5 on my external hdd but I cannot find my ntfs partition on the external and my main ntfs partition on the pc's internal hard drive when I boot with the lmde 5. but it shows me the other linux partitions I have on both internal and external hard drives in the devices section. I also went to the file system section of the lmde 5 I installed and I found an EFI folder which when I opened was showing the content of my internal window xp partition as folders within this same folder. but I cannot find all the ntfs partitions either external or internal to mount. but my lmde 5 is set to automount all devised or drives or partitions whichever you want to call it to list in devices. but not showing. Any help please? one thing I also noticed is I don't have any efi or swap partition created on my external hard drive partitions. but the grub is installed on the external hard drive.

[@primatolog3250]

Hi, i dont need timeshift in manjaro, but it comes by default. So i need another distro.

[@AS-bg5kg]

Hello sir, Even though this is an old vid, I hope u see this comment. I tried the same procedure of editing the fstab file on lmde6 and ended up in the tty terminal, had to reinstall and again same result after editing fstab. Will it be different in lmde6. Please guide.

[@wrmbrr]

Do you would tell if LMDE's cinnamon is updated with same frequency of Mint?

[@jonspoonamore3721]

For me, it has. Any Cinnamon Updates on LM21 migrate to LMDE5 usually in about a week.

[@bengtl.5017]

I want English as system language but Swedish locale for the rest. Why doesn't mint installation allow it?

[@Steven_nevetS]

Would KDE work if I installed it onto LMDE 5? Nice Video by the way

[@mivydeo]

Use mx-kde...

[@N3CDX09]

Just wondering, Will you be doing a updated Arch Linux install on UEFI with KDE ( complete install ) anytime? Thank you for all the awesome video's.

[@eflinux]

Hi Chip! Can do 🙂

[@N3CDX09]

@@eflinux thank you ermanno. I’ll keep my eye out for it.😀

[@eflinux]

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[@viisteist1363]

can i install lmde5 on a win10 multiboot system with btrfs and legacy boot somehow or will the new grub mess something up in windows side? maybe i can just do everything like i did with ext4, and now just change root and home partition to btrfs, but boot partition still ext4?

[@akhilmarar6546]

For multiboot with windows, the boot partition must be in FAT and not in ext4 from what I know. Windows Installer creates a FAT boot partition by default and upon Linux installation, GRUB gets installed on that partition. The other partions are: windows side - NTFS and on the Linux side (root and home) can be as per your choice.

[@thenoseplays2488]

So I walked through the entire process twice, was super careful and did everything you did exactly. Got all the way through Mint installation, but when I click the restart prompt and press enter to remove the media just like you, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the corner after VB reboots. Is this not something you can do in a Virtual Box environment? Or am I missing something else perhaps?

[@eflinux]

Try to change the video driver in VB.

[@thenoseplays2488]

@@eflinux I just got done doing the automated install with default partition settings to make sure it works. No problems at all. I will try again with a different display setting for VB and see if that helps when doing the btrfs partition.

[@thenoseplays2488]

@@eflinux Changing from VMSVGA to VBoxSVGA did not fix the problem. Still gets all the way to the end and hangs on reboot.

[@thenoseplays2488]

@@eflinux Finally got it to work, it was clearly some Vbox setting I had checked wrong. It would be helpful to have a future video include your Vbox settings so I can see which one i missed. Trial and error got it working but not sure exactly what it was.

[@evelynescalona7267]

this aply for any linux distro?thanks

[@ErikDuits-jy4ms]

Thank you for this! Can you do the same thing for LMDE 6 ? 🙂

[@ErikDuits-jy4ms]

i figured it out. it's the same procedure. The only thing that has changed in FSTAB is space_cache=v2.

[@NinuRenee]

The GUIs have very small font and unfriendly contrasts, even having the video fullscreened i need to have my face glued to my laptop screen (1:00-8:35)

[@derricknyakundi1985]

Can all the settings you did be applied to an ext4 system?

[@derricknyakundi1985]

Kindy help me sir.

[@eflinux]

That I know some settings are btrfs only.

[@derricknyakundi1985]

@@eflinux what about the settings on zram that you used and the ones to prvent SSd write?

[@r.razamhd]

Mint on btrfs is buggy

[@jarrettwalck3409]

Mint needs KDE

[@kanishcktewatia597]

cinnamon hella ugly though

[@metahand7188]

I wish Linux Mint team release other flavors of LMDE.

[@nanabrimpong3485]

@eflinux hi I need your help. I installed linux mint deviants edition 5 on my external hdd but I cannot find my ntfs partition on the external and my main ntfs partition on the pc's internal hard drive when I boot with the lmde 5. but it shows me the other linux partitions I have on both internal and external hard drives in the devices section. I also went to the file system section of the lmde 5 I installed and I found an EFI folder which when I opened was showing the content of my internal window xp partition as folders within this same folder. but I cannot find all the ntfs partitions either external or internal to mount. but my lmde 5 is set to automount all devised or drives or partitions whichever you want to call it to list in devices. but not showing. Any help please? one thing I also noticed is I don't have any efi or swap partition created on my external hard drive partitions. but the grub is installed on the external hard drive.