A Quick Look At The New Peppermint OS (Based On Debian 12)

Peppermint is a Debian-based Linux distro that provides a user with the opportunity to build the system that best fits their needs. Provide a nice Xfce desktop with minimum hassle out of the box.

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[partydemon]

"Hidden files should not be hidden" - Statement of the year

[atps]

Great video, as always. I only disagree with the removal of gparted. I always keep at least 1 GUI partition manager program. It is handy for quick formatting of UBSs.

[WK-]

Glad to see Peppermint is not only still maintained but has also migrated base to Debian. Wonder if the LibreOffice UI is no longer broken now that they've also moved on from that Xfce-LXDE hybrid they used to roll with. It was certainly unique but also bizarre, real homebrew stuff.

I do however feel the team is more competent with developing tools than overseeing a distro, seeing as they started supporting web apps as standard before it was fashionable, yet Peppermint still has minor issues upon install after so enough years in to the project that it could be called mature.

Functionality issues like DT had there with snap installs, the odd design decision to include a dock while keeping the default panel at the bottom, and that UX issue I mentioned (that may well be fixed now) are basically nonissues on their own but frustrating in combination.

It's about the little things, like any Linux user can tell you.

[CommodoreFan]

I 100% respect Debian, and most Debian based distros, but for me as a gamer running newer hardware on my main system, I've just never found them to be the most useful for me, plus I like to try to stick to the same distro across my machines if possible, so I've gone with Manjaro GNOME w/traditional layout, and have had good luck even running it on my less powerful machines.

Having said that if I had to use a Debian based distro, Peppermint OS would be at the top of the list next to Mint DE. 👍

[stephenanthony]

I liked the previous iteration of Peppermint OS. I ran it on a very low spec chromebook. It was very stable and i liked the ability to save bookmark links to the desktop. Neat project

[vallabh]

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[linuxrant]

Pretty cool. I didn't know you could have rounded window corners and rounded panel buttons on xfce, neat.

[VinDSL]

Great video, but I believe you've mistakenly misidentified LUAKIT as qutebrowser, which is easy to do." PeppermintOS/Bookworm employs LUAKIT for Vim-style browsing, not qutebrowser. That's why you "didn't see qutebrowser under browsers."

[tambuchalinux]

Manjaro was my first full Linux Distro that I stuck with for a long time. Before that, I used my own version of Puppy Linux for years. It has only been in the last year that I've done the most distro hopping, but now I am settling down. Cachy OS and Nobara are my current staples, and now with Debian 12, I am looking for a good debian-based distro to play with. Peppermint looks like it might be the one..but I am still waiting on MXLinux and Linux Mint Debian Edition (final bookworm releases) to arrive before making that decision.

[thelakeman]

I think the reason why flathub couldn't find the package was because you typed the package name incorrectly, the flatpak package would begin with org., com., etc like android packages instead of the traditional package name like 'gimp'.

[JoaoPedro-gvug]

Hey Dt, this is not qutebrowser, it is actually luakit. Maybe you should give a look at this project, it is a pretty nice alternative to ppl like me who dont want any google trash in our OS's.

[plainsabertooth]

I'm happy to see peppermint os bring back 32bit iso again I have very old hardware and it runs nicely with it :3

[artturistolt]

PMOS is doing great I see. I thought the main attraction of Peppermint was the Ice SSB (Kumo apparently now 16:13 ) system, which kind-of gave some "diy Chrome-OS" tones to it.

At least that was the reason I ran it on one of my laptops a couple years ago, making office, Youtube and a finnish streaming service Yle Areena as "apps" for my mom to use.

[wateryevents]

This looks like a return to glory for a distro I loved starting people on linux with. Definitely looks like its getting put back into rotation.

[thetrancedemon]

Not bad for xfce. Even Zorin Lite and MX Linux did a good job of xfce. I read somewhere that xfce can be customized to look like any de.

[ashr]

Just installed it yesterday and it's running great. Very lightweight and had no trouble installing Nvidia driver. I will be using this for the rest of this year.

[kryzerk]

The "install flatpak" installs the flatpack installing tool, but not the repository, so you have to add flathub repo manually.

[Rotceev]

I wish someone would compare ram and cpu usage of the best XFCE distros. peppermintOS, Zorin, linux lite, MX etc...

[Serenzenity]

I have a 13 year old HP and I put this on it today and it's actually running really nice lol.

[jesse]

I can always tell Xfce environments. Looks great until you notice the janky, non-standard sized icons in the tray. Exactly why can't that be fixed?