What are your thoughts on Debian trixie ? I’ve been on many distros but never seen so much hype about Debian on mastodon. Currently using void and Mac OS but don’t know what will get me to try trixie when i’ve hopped to Debian so many times
I’m still noob when it comes to running Linux. Debian has always been my favourite - just the philosophy behind it, but also the stability and broad usage. First OS book I read fully was on Debian. Then coming to try using Debian, it failed me (some things didn’t work and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it) multiple times. However, Debian 12 was the turning point and Debian 13 seems to work at least as good.
My systems always run Debian, and they always run. Trixie is no different.
Seems nice so far. Wayland works better than in 12, but still has issues with nvidia drivers + KDE Plasma combo. Some software (Signal desktop, discord at least) have a really annoying flickering going on, and toggling Vsync on/off crashes any software that tries it. Swapped to X11 instead, and it works like a charm.
How do you even swap to x11 when you have Wayland installed? Let me guess there is a way on the internet? Don’t even know why i’m asking Lol
They can both be installed and can be swapped in the log-in session.
Even with an DE installed, Linux doesn’t force you to use it. Pressing Ctrl+alt and any of the F-keys is usually configured to switching between sessions. So even if the DE gets stuck and gets fully unresponsive, you can still switch to a different session and access your system through a terminal. Using that terminal you could also install a different DE (or window compositor)
Thanks
I used sed to replace my apt sources.list entries with Trixie…then ran sudo apt update, sudo apt dist-upgrade.
After one reboot my system was updated. Debian is basically that 80 year old tractor on the farm that still starts after sitting for 6 months with no effort. It just works. And that’s why I love it.
Its the small window where Debian is relatively modern, in a couple of months it’ll be stale again.
Maybe it’s because I only use stable on my laptop with Flatpaks, but honestly, Bookworm never got that crusty to me until recently - it feels like new software versions didn’t introduce a lot of must have features in the past two years. Only hiccup was I had to install the backports kernel to get Wi-Fi working.
Figured!
Debian is like retirement on a nice house in the countryside: it’s a predictable life of peace and comfort
Never heard it that way Lol
Debian users tend to just get on with using their computers and don’t make it their personality. Why you’ll only hear from them every 2 years.
It’s boring and predictable, which is precisely what I want from a distribution. It also benefits from not being a desktop OS, or a server OS, or an embedded OS, it’s all of those: learning Debian is useful even if you hate it and don’t run it personally because you will encounter it somewhere.
Most of what I know about Trixie is that it was so easy to upgrade that the only configuration I had to fix was changing the clock back to 24hr time.
I like how you have more Wayland packages
Despite the major version jump, the update just works. One hour to download and install and one hour of housekeeping, but that’s on me for messing with configs most people wouldn’t ever touch and finding a replacement for a deprecated package. New features for me to check out at my leisure, all well-tested with no disruption to my established workflow.
That’s so Debian
Updated my laptop from bookworm this morning. I had to configure dnsmasq, but otherwise it seems fine. (Wait, I think I configured it wrong… It’s okay for home, but name servers could be different if I’m somewhere else. I’ll have to check that.)
The update from Debian 12 took me four hours. It works. Plasma did not load so I had to clear old configuration files and configure it anew. Plasma on Wayland is actually usable now, and looks stable so far. And I’ve got new wallpapers I’ve so desired.
And now it’s time to forget about OS updates for another two years.
It’s like the old Debian but with newer software.
I guess the wayland stuff works ok now. That wasn’t quite ready for the mainstream in the last release.
It’s great. It’s the most “just works” experience I’ve had with Linux.
