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Agreed. I use regular Linux Mint and it's fantastic. Clem and team are excellent and IMO the best distro overall.
If you're a Debian fan or user I highly recommend using LMDE because it's Debian+. It takes the pain out of installing and setting up Debian, adds a great desktop environment, has auto update checks, great set of utility's and apps and support.
I might spin it up in a VM and take a look.
Is this what installs by default? I just installed Cinnamon on my windows laptop and am not sure what this is all about. Anyway I was very impressed with it might even switch from OCLP/MacOS on my aging Macs.
It's a pity LMDE isn't a standard for users without Nvidia.
Well, you do get older apps in general unless they are backported by the Mint team.
What I would love to see is dropping the Ubuntu base entirely, copy / backport the Nvidia drivers, and have the team focus on backporting more packages from Debian testing (based off telemetry / popcon to see which are most popular).
I have a hunch that is actually their endgame, but we'll see.
LMDE has flatpaks in the Software Manager.
I realize I'm in the minority, but I'm not a fan of it. Like, for sideloading proprietary software like discord and the like, yes, if they don't have a deb repository. But I wouldn't want to use Flatpack for stuff that is already part of Debian main, like a web browser, an office suite, etc.
Well, you're not alone. As an longtime Linux user I am not a fan of flatpaks either. But I accept the idea that they're most likely the future. The only nice feature of them is the OS invisibility for trackers.