Difference between revisions of "Switching over to LMDE"
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=== VMs === | === VMs === | ||
Revision as of 00:42, 27 December 2021
So...
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu & Ubuntu is based on Debian.
Ubuntu is slowly trying to turn into a combination of Windows & MacOS...
Ick!
LMDE is a version of Linux Mint without the Ubuntu step.
Seems promising.
Contents
BUT, There are some oddities
Gnome Terminal
For some odd reason, the default keyboard shortcuts for the terminal don't actually all work.
Solution
Fire up the terminal, then select Edit / Preferences in the menus. Then select the Shortcuts tab. Click twice (NOT double-click) on the Shortcut Key you want to fix, then re-define it to either the same as it was (or something else if you wish).
vim
(as installed on LMDE) has mouse weirdness. Selecting text with the mouse automatically enter visual mode. This prevents useful things like using the mouse to copy/paste while editing in the terminal. (Visual Mode is stupid...)
Solution
Either enter:
:set mouse-=a
during an editing session, or even better, put it (without the leading colon) in your ~/.vimrc file. (create the .vimrc file if it's not already there...)
vim ~/.vimrc
set mouse-=a
If you tend to use vim via sudo a lot... (duh... Who doesn't?)
sudo vim ~root/.vimrc
Sadly, this seems to turn off the colour syntax hilighting.
But!
add
syntax on
to the .vimrc files & it's back.
VMs
Unlike Mint 20, LMDE does not yet automatically install open-vm-tools. so sad...
Solution
apt install open-vm-tools
Updates (after 2021/08/14)
Apparently...
Debian has updated & LMDE 4 is a little bitchy about the Debian InRelease name change.
It's fairly simple to fix
Open a terminal & enter:
apt update --allow-releaseinfo-change
Traceroute is missing
Most places on the net say apt install net-tools...
Nope...
apt install traceroute
