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
Debian is like retirement on a nice house in the countryside: it’s a predictable life of peace and comfort
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 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.
I made an in-place upgrade from 12 and it Just Works™
That’s all I care about.
It’s great. It’s the most “just works” experience I’ve had with Linux.
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.
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.
I love Debian stable and use it on most my computers, servers included. I love that it is boring, that potentially breaking updates occur only every release and I usually wait a bit before I apply them. For the rare software where I want (rarely need) a more recent version, there are backports, flatpaks, or sometimes 3rd party repos, or even build-yourself-from-the-README if I’m really in the mood.
I like the flatpak method just cause Debian uses the same base for 2 Years and easier to get newer programs that need a recent enough base
It’s really popular in the server world, and it’s the foundation of many other distros, maybe that’s why?
Im running Trixie and have been for a few months now. I switched over back when it was good enough for me but still in testing. Not sure what to say about it. It works. Has lots of software available. Don’t really run into bugs or anything. Updates are quick and easy. Just Debian stuff i guess. I use a laptop thats like 5 years old so i have no need for the bleeding edge support Arch offers, and Debian is just easy.
