{"id":34724,"date":"2025-09-21T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34724"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:21:46","slug":"installing-lmde7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34724","title":{"rendered":"Installing LMDE7"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 beta, based on Debian 13 Trixie, was released last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had been planning to do a clean install, replacing my LMDE6 install and reinstalling the apps I needed, for a lot of reasons — putting the install on my system’s NVMe, LMDE6 was originally installed on an Intel i5 machine and now I have an AMD processor — and I was going to wait until LMDE7 hit final, but I went ahead and started working on it last week, migrating my (generally unused) Windows 11 install off the NVMe, making what would be a \/home partiton and moving my files over, and installing a 2 terabyte drive strictly for music storage.<\/p>\n

I downloaded the beta iso in the middle of the week, Thursday, I think, and I kicked the tires on it in a virtual machine. Then, yesterday morning I installed then off and on throughout the day worked on tweaking this and that, getting things installed, etc., etc.<\/p>\n

\"Desktop<\/p>\n

I had a little trouble getting my virtual machines up and running, but they’re good now.<\/p>\n

I also installed Wine, the Windows compatibility layer, which I had not done on LMDE6, and I migrated my Wine directory (with installed programs) from a Mint 22 install. I did not play it last night, but I fired up my twenty-five year old copy of Microsoft’s Age of Empires II<\/i> and it launched, so all it good with the world. (Yeah Write!<\/i>, a word processor I used to use, has not worked in a while. It launches, but it’s a white window.)<\/p>\n

One thing I did not do, in installing everything, was to run this command…<\/p>\n

sudo apt install network-manager-sstp network-manager-sstp-gnome sstp-client freerdp3-x11<\/code><\/p>\n

That would install all the software I would need to access Diamond’s computers. This would be followed by a script to set up the VPN connection, and I would run a different script whenever I needed to access my remote desktop.<\/p>\n

I wrote a whole manual for work. It’s 35 pages, complete with illustrations. I gave it to the head of IT in late 2023 to the resounding clamor of crickets. I thought it might’ve come in useful; there would be people at Diamond who didn’t want to buy a new computer just because Windows 10 hit EOL.<\/p>\n

No one ever told me I couldn’t<\/i> use Linux, but I was on my own.<\/p>\n

For the moment, I have not<\/i> installed Conky. I began toying with it, after I decided a few months ago I was going to do a clean install of LMDE7, and I have a configuration ready to go, but I don’t feel I need it.<\/p>\n

\"Desktop<\/p>\n

My CTWM configuration didn’t work correctly. The problem is that there’s something weird about window geometries, and an X offset of 0 causes the application to go to the left side of the screen, not the right. Meanwhile, a Y offset of 0 is perfectly fine. So I had to fix the geometries in the config, and now it’s almost<\/i> fine; there’s a one-pixel empty space between my side panel on the right and the screen edge. I suppose I could<\/i> put the panel on the left…<\/p>\n

The experimental Wayland session works, but there’s no usable desktop — no icons, mouse clicks don’t respond, no wallpaper. But, the clock desklet works. Google searches show this can happen — there’s some suggestion it’s an Nvidia problem, but I don’t have an Nvidia card — and there was the suggestion to create a new user, which I tried, thinking there might be something in my configuration, but no, there was no change. No Wayland for me. This is an X11 household!<\/p>\n

Otherwise, it’s good. I’ll update new packages in the next week or so and be up to date.<\/p>\n

The desktop wallpaper, by the way, is of the Rock of Cashel<\/a> in Ireland, the historic seat of the High Kings of Ireland. While I’ve used the Rock of Cashel as a wallpaper — there’s a moody image in Microsoft’s Ireland wallpaper pack for Windows 7, which I used to use at work — this image is courtesy of the Irish photographer Mark McGuire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was always a little irksome that Microsoft didn’t have a Scotland wallpaper pack…<\/p>\n

LMDE7 feels sprightlier. Could be the NVMe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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