I'm excited to give it a try.

so what would be the difference between LMDE and Debian with cinnamon DE

SteamOS is debian based right? does that mean LMDE will benefit from valve's commits in some ways mint wouldnt have otherwise?

This is 👍 👌 👍

I tried the beta and liked it. The only issue I ran into was that the MozillaVPN app wasn't working on debian.

I also had not seen much progress on the Debian version of the app from what I found. I could be wrong as that was my first dip into Debian.

Mullvad is available and I might switch to that at a later time when the motivation strikes me.

I prefer the idea of community driven projects though.

I would've jumped on this instantly, but I finally landed on a Min21 configuration that works well. New laptop => new hardware => need new nvidia driver => need new kernel.

Which kernel does LMDE currently ship with?

Can someone explain to me how it differs from regular Debian Cinnamon? Is it as secure, with updates and all?

The question everyone is thinking, but no one will ask: will I be able to install Snap packages on it? Hahahhaha kidding.

I've been eagerly awaiting this release, and will likely replace my OpenSuse with this. I really like OpenSuse, but have some software needs that are only available on dep packages.