I am tempted to think like others that this might be an indication for more. Are they distancing themselves from Ubuntu ... ? As much as I think that Ubuntu is (was?) important for more acceptance of Linux on desktops, I do not like snap packaging and some of the things that Ubuntu seems to push further onto the users. As we have seen at the server side where we are now almost everything running Debian based to avoid any "surprises" of distributions been taken over by someone, Debian seems more and more the way to go for me on the desktop too. Michael On 14/04/25 10:51, Peter Reutemann wrote:

'Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 "will come with full support for OEM installations," according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint "can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It's a very important feature and it's one of the very few remaining things which wasn't supported by Linux Mint Debian Edition."

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli speculates that "this could be a sign of something much bigger." OEM installs are typically reserved for operating systems meant to ship on hardware. It's how companies preload Linux on laptops without setting a username, password, or timezone... Mint has supported this for years — but only in its Ubuntu-based version. So why is this feature suddenly coming to Linux Mint Debian Edition, which the team has repeatedly described as a contingency? In other words, if the Debian variant is merely a plan B, why make it ready for OEMs?

Their blog post goes on to speculate about possible explanations (like the hypothetical possibility of dissatisfaction with Snap packages or Canonical's decisions around telemetry and packaging).'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/0518218

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