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
My systems always run Debian, and they always run. Trixie is no different.
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.
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
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
They can both be installed and can be swapped in the log-in session.
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.
I like how you have more Wayland packages
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!
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.)
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
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.
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.
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
I made an in-place upgrade from 12 and it Just Works™
That’s all I care about.
I use Debian as my main distro. Ive played with stable, testing, and unstable over the past few years. I’m confident Trixie is perfectly fine for stable. It looked fine the last few months I used it in testing.
If old stable didn’t impress you, Trixie isn’t gonna be any different. The hype is just because a release happened, we don’t get those in Debian land very often.
It’s great. It’s the most “just works” experience I’ve had with Linux.
