LMDE 7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) released

By Liam Dawe - 14 Oct 2025 at 11:17 am UTC

LMDE 7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is out now as the latest from the Mint team based directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu. It's their fallback plan of Ubuntu ever truly goes to shit, making sure Linux Mint could continue on and it's a target for various software they develop to also ensure their stuff works outside Ubuntu.

LMDE 7 is based on Debian 13 Trixie, which originally released back in August and comes with all the changes from that.

Pictured - LMDE 7

The Linux Mint team didn't really go into any detail on any of their own changes, their release notes gave a one-liner of "Linux Mint 7 comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable". Helpful. Mostly, it will be the changes from Debian 13 along with all the updates they made to the Cinnamon desktop for Linux Mint 22.2.

Source: Mint Blog

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Distro News, Linux Mint, Misc, New Release, Open Source

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R Daneel Olivaw 9 hours ago

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I'm moving several friends over to linux because of the hilarious shoot-self-in-foot fiasco by microsoft, and I'm using Mint for all of them. Seems the most user friendly coming from windows.

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MiZoG 9 hours ago

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Seems the most user friendly coming from... Arch emoji

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R Daneel Olivaw 6 hours ago

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LOL that's true!

So this'll be an interesting experiment. Here are the people I'm moving to Mint from win10:

1 - 44 yr old close friend - very tech savvy - mostly used for work - should be easy I think.
2 - his ~75 yr old mother - least tech savvy human being on earth - but only uses computer for solitaire and email, nothing else. I think I can make it work.
3 - 60 yr old close friend - medium tech savvy - laptop is older but works totally fine - I think this is the one I'm most worried about.

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Purple Library Guy 2 hours ago

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Work use-cases can be tricky. Sometimes there's that one particular thing you have to do for work, like you actually need to do surgery on .pdfs that you can't really do without Acrobat Pro, or you actually need some of the weird advanced features in Excel to do with charts and such, or you need exact visual fidelity on the roundtrips between Word and LibreOffice Writer.

That last I believe can be made a lot better if you arrange to get your hands on the Windows fonts and put them in where LibreOffice can see them. Or I guess put some of the fonts you find in Linux into Windows? Anyway, a lot of the trouble with Word on Windows and LibreOffice on Linux documents not looking quite the same is if they don't have the right font and just grab some other one that's available to use instead. That can affect not just how the letters look, but how much space they end up taking up, which will mess up layout. Have the right font and everything will be a lot closer to identical.

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Drakker 23 minutes ago

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Linux Mint aka a working version of Ubuntu. It fixes most of what is wrong with Ubuntu and is actually quite a nice distro. Glad that they have a backup with the Debian edition... But Debian is already a great distro, so I don't see much of a reason to use this over plain Debian. Always nice to have options though.

Last edited by Drakker on 14 Oct 2025 at 9:57 pm UTC

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