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New to Mint - How to determine software compatibility? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there, I started using Linux Mint Cinnamon a few days ago and am currently setting up my workspace, that includes software I can't find through the integrated Software Manager

My biggest issue is that I don't understand how to determine if software is compatible with Mint. Often devs declare their product to be compatible with ubuntu. Since Linux Mint is based on ubuntu, does that make the software automatically compatible?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. So anything advertised to work on those will generally work on mint.

One caveat is that Ubuntu also uses Snap to package stuff, but Mint doesn't have snap by default. But mint has flatpak, which Ubuntu doesn't have by default.