Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?
Why is this a problem?
The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are. And Canonical has only tested this in one cycle, 25.10, before introducing it in an LTS. Would’ve made more sense to wait until 26.10.
Other find problem with it being MIT licensed.
The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are.
Mint is the last distro that would push something that isn’t battle tested. IIRC they haven’t even started working on Wayland support.
Have you read Clem’s comment?
Its two fold for many (not for me): Rust and MIT
Well, what about just using Debian? It’s a bit hassle, maybe, but if you have prior Linux experience, you’ll be fine.
what about just using Debian? It’s a bit hassle
What hassle? Genuinely curious.
Well, for example, upgrading between releases is done by manually editing
sources.listand some other steps, and there’s no easy tool for that. This is not difficult, exactly, but for people with little experience it’s a bit daunting. Debian in general isn’t the most new user friendly distro, in my experience. Distros like Mint and Ubuntu make the Debian experience slightly easier. Not that Debian is some esoteric system.
There is the Mint version that is based directly on Debian, instead of Ubuntu: LMDE
I haven’t used it myself, maybe someone with actual experience can comment on it.
I wonder why they make both Ubuntu and separate Debian based Mint. That duplicates the work.
I would probably jump from ubuntu to mint if they drop ubunutu in favor of debian. But then, debian itself is a perfectly fine distro and i could also use it directly.
Too much choice.
The comment itself:
[…] Rust-coreutils does affect us. This is something we definitely see as part of the base so even though we would prefer for coreutils not to change, we’re hoping to align with Ubuntu on this. We’re concerned with regressions. New code almost always introduces regressions. That’s a lot of new code on very important components. I was shocked to see rust-coreutils updated from 0.7 to 0.8 just days before the stable release of Ubuntu 26.04. It actually broke something important on our side. We fixed it. I’m sure Ubuntu will update it whenever new regressions are found. We’ll see.
I wasn’t aware that the pist was hidden/remove by myself
Testing
Have anybody here tried Tuxedo OS?Forget it, same Ubuntu base
