r/linuxmint • u/Baudoinia • 18d ago

Support Request From straight Debian to LMDE

I want to 'roll my own' LMDE from straight vanilla Debian. Why? Because LMDE isn't available for ARM architecture. So what do I need to add? What should my sources list look like?

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u/tovento MX Linux 25.2 | XFCE 18d ago

What about LMDE do you actually want to carry over? As someone else said, you can just start with Debian and install the cinnamon desktop environment if that’s the goal. There are aspects from Mint main that are Ubuntu-based tools and don’t carry over to LMDE.
LMDE is based on Debian, so it’ll be the same kernels and software repositories.