Peppermint OS 11 Unveils New Bullseye-Based Distro

 It’s taken them three years, but Peppermint OS, a lightweight Linux distro for low-powered computers, has a new release - Peppermint OS 11 - and it’s a big change from its predecessor.

 While Peppermint OS 10 was based on Ubuntu, version 11 makes the jump to 64-bit Debian Bullseye, the 5.10 LTS kernel, and the lightweight Xfce 4.16 default desktop environment. This means you now get Calameres as the graphical installer instead of Ubuntu’s Ubiquity, and sees changes in the software selection too, with Nemo replacing Thunar as the default file manager, and new Welcome To Peppermint and Peppermint Hub apps that let you customise the OS and access its settings.

There's no web browser installed by default, but with Firefox ESR, Konquerer, Epiphany and more available from the Welcome app, that shouldn’t take too long to sort out. Of course being a Debian system you are free to install whatever web browser that you wish via the APT package manager.  

I installed Firefox from unstable to get the latest and not the esr-version

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -t unstable firefox

 

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