On Friday 15 August 2025 05:01:03 dep via tde-users wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately "Debian-based" pretty much always means "uses the .deb package management and will run things from the Debian repository,"
I can recommend MX Linux, which is Debian based, easy to use, and has a very good update system (tells you you have updates, you click and it gets done).
Unfortunately this really works well with xfce. Running TDE on it is easy when you know what you're doing, but there are some things to tweak (such as aditing the menus to add tdesu to run the MX utilities and other software that require root or sudo password).
I did not manage to make an iso that installs from TDE, I did get one that installs from xfce, with TDE, and you need to change desktop and dm by hand after install.
That works well enough for me, but is probably not what you're after. Still worth a look I think.
Thierry