How does the Debian edition differ from normal mint?

I mean kinda, but there are still some software and version differences that can make some stuff behave differently. my brother has been tinkering with chromebook with touch screen. and he hasn't found a distro yet where everything works. in some distros sound doesn't work, in some touchscreen doesn't work, in some keyboard doesn't work etc.

so while the experience is mostly same there are still some differences, they do show up easier with odd hardware though

I've been considering putting Mint on my system, then adding the new version of Unity that Canonical doesn't contribute to. Last time I used Linux was when Ubuntu finally had Unity working well and I really miss the HUD thing. Tapping alt to search the menus for the tool I wanted in Gimp was very nice.

It isn't. But they are pushing it more aggressively. The latest release will tell you it can't even open .deb files anymore. The Ubuntu store will load indefinitely and not be able to install it. ( read it in a blog post ). And it's opening deb files in archive manager by default rather than the software centre.

Even if it is just a bug. It is one they are refusing to fix ( and one that I can't imagine being difficult to solve ).

It still works over CLI for now, which is how I usually install deb's. But if I have to go online to download all kinds of debs it feels like I'm back in the 90s windows downloading a bunch of exe's I no have to manage myself.

It's more of a statement against Ubuntu and how canonical is handling the snap packages. Maybe it won't be so easy to disable it in the future. Or maybe apt will barely be able to install anything anymore if you disable snap since that seems to be all they went you to run.

In any case. I don't really like the direction they're headed, and I'd rather not have to distro hop in two years because canonical decide to make snap mandatory.

Snap has not worked out well for me in the past :(.

We're in a thread about Windows malfeasance and that's what the Windows users say about their ad-ridden trash heap of an OS. Why would we tolerate the same behavior just because it is on top of a Linux kernel?

I'm used to gnome, and I currently tried out garuda. It's a tad weird as there's no app bar anywhere with "running apps". If I execute it again it just starts a new one. Which is strange behaviour.

It works quite well for what it should do, but I'm feeling a bit lost in it. It also feels if I'd want to do something else ( like coding ) that it wouldn't be very intuitive.

The nobara gnome screenshot looks similar ( no app drawer ). Are you running it in gnome or kde/official?