PepperMint OS 11 August 2022

Today, I am exploring the August 2022 update to Peppermint OS 11, this team which puts Peppermint together is doing an amazing job, creating a distro which is both performant and free of the package bloat so many other seem to want to build these days. There is a benchmark at the end of course.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Overview
00:44 - Generic Xfce
03:42 - Peppermint Xfce
06:03 - Peppermint Dev Team
06:34 - Three Linux Innovators
06:56 - Two baselines and Two architectures
09:15 - Swap File Options
10:02 - Debian Stable Base too Stale
11:12 - hblock - Ad Blocker
13:13 - Memory and Disk Usage
13:50 - Updated Peppermint Docs
14:15 - Welcome App
15:52 - Thoughts on Peppermint OS
16:34 - Peppermint Benchmark Results
25:01 - Outro

[charlescadogan]

I am new to Linux. I use Debian XFCE. I really like it.

My many thanks to all the Linux community for posting these videos. I could not have learnt about it without you

[rcdenis]

What I like about Xfce is that it makes my old laptop (dual core @ 2GHz from 2008) still useful. Windows 7 will run on it but the laptop may as well be a paper weight as such. Also, Xfce is lightning fast on my dual Xeon E5 workstation.

[anya_adora]

I've not used XFCE for 15+ years now but always appreciated how lightweight it was. Seeing this case use with theming is interesting. Seems like it would be a great choice for an older workstation that still used spinning rust and perhaps had limited memory. For those in developing places with limited resources / older hardware, who want a more modern desktop this seems like a very useful project. As always, thanks for showing us this Don, have a good week! :)

[stevesveryown]

You are a class act, DJ! Thanks for the updated review!

[andrewpalm]

As I've aged (75 and still counting) I've found myself to be less willing to spend time configuring my Linux installs. This led me to stop using tiling window managers, Openbox, Fluxbox, etc. and settle for Xfce (and Budgie secondarily on Debian). Now Xfce takes a bit of work to get the themes lined up, but it was a lot less work than setting up, say, Openbox. If I get even less willing to go through desktop configuration I see Linux Mint or something similar in my future. (And, to be honest, when I'm relaxing in the evening I'm already on a ChromeOS Flex/Thinkpad combo--but with the Linux container also activated for terminal fun.) Once Wayland becomes the only choice I guess I could live with Gnome or KDE, but under protest. Cheers from Wisconsin!

[kswoodsman]

DJ Ware, Many thanks for taking the time to make direct comparisons into a good presentation.
Your shows are never a disappointment.
They're always informative and well grounded from experience.
Heh, that FF-ESR thing from Feb 2nd still gives me a chuckle.
We caught what happened upstream from the previous week and had a maintenance release cut immediately.
For people that had already installed PeppermintOS we had a patch script out at the same time so a re-install wasn't needed.
A lot of work went into and goes into the back end, which most people don't see.
They see and use the fruits, being unaware of the process.
From past conversations (in the old forum), when there were multiple stages of development going on simultaneously, I know you do see the process(es).
My seeing the polished project with your MG version I know you are aware of what is entailed to produce a Distro. Nice job there BTW.

Your shows add value to the Linux community and I always enjoy them.
Thanks Again !
KsW

[methanoid]

Interested about that hblock so nice share there

[iwhitt]

Glad to see Peppermint OS is back. It's hard to choose between this distro, Linux Lite, and Ubuntu MATE.

[maciej-]

It's consistent but my ayes are bleeding when i look at this bright red font on grey buttons.

[ABUFARAH]

i have intel pentium 4 pc that runs peppermint os 11 32 bit devian. I don't have wifi connection originally so im using a wifi adapter dongle. my issues is not detected and not working

[virtuallifeform]

I found XFCE to be very easy to configure, but maybe that's just Manjaro's spin on it. It's certainly very lightweight and snappy, even on RPi 4B.

[johanb.]

uBlock origin for ad blocking is the better option. Default Debian Xfce is just ugly. But themed with Arc dark and Papirus dark icons and the bottom panel removed and the top panel dragged to the bottom, beautiful IMO. Wow Peppermint 8 my very first ever Linux distro still going strong. Mark Greaves really was a genius😉

[kbaeve]

Lesson from a bit younger guy lol. "I don't make fun of" is the same you make fun of 😅 Besides that very nice and informative video as usual boss

[eugrus]

Alt Linux has applied a very similar set of modifications to MATE.

[billy_cross]

I guess what I’m saying is families forks are better than the distro of a big come from

[isopticon]

While I'm big fan of your channel I completely do not agree with you on this one. XFCE has different set of icons for your home directory and for the outside & root. So you know that you are not inside your home directory and you are outside of your safety zone and you might need privillages to carry out any changes. Linux has quite complicated folder/directory system and having this icon different is actually quite helpfull not only to begginers but to anyone using Linux system. I hope this make sense now.

[billy_cross]

It’s easy for a new user like me to figure out how to get flat flat flat pack branch got something already know how to get it getting rid of it requires doing research and probably a fair amount of work I’m in a room playing with various distributions and some have automatically installed plan back when I went to install a flat pack package oh why do you mention chromium I think an elementary OS maybe wasn’t chromium Hambrick trying to install handbrake I think required me to install went back but it did it on the flyer automatically did it for me I didn’t have to know how I didn’t have to go to the command line what if I don’t meet flatpack or or snare damn how do you get rid of it all over the balances and things I can install army sometimes it’s overwhelming for a new user and I’m kind of a tacky guy even so I am wallowing around I just went through the process of installing by Denian and a very very late 1997 Pentium 4 and Ani more recent 64-bit laptop by trying to find one distro that will run on both of those machines and so I was obviously trying you know don’t know one distro that’s meant to run on everything but when I get it installed in both places simple things like my user name is not in the suppers file so you know I made one too difficult to fix but it by install design because I’ve installed it several times with different O desktops and every time in order to for instance just change the desktop and I went to Runtastic select and change the desktop I have to go fix that so that’s the way TBN is installing starter it’s not a fluke or a glitch that happen it’s the way it’s installing they’re not putting my No it’s kind of annoying given it’s one of the only distributions that supports 32 Rick machines with the most current kernel