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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It truly is incredible. Debian never been better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Worth mentioning, this also brings the first ever stable release of Mobian: https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2023/06/10/bookworm/
Hardware support still needs more love, as Linux phone ecosystem depends entirely on volunteers writing the drivers, but we're getting there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Great to see it comes with the very latest version of KDE Plasma 5.27.5 desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

noob question, how do you upgrade from 11 to 12 ?

[–] halo5 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There are instructions in the release notes. Chapter 4.

[–] RQG 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This release seems really solid. Good timing to hit a lot of good software releases. Makes me want to finally try out Debian. I'm a big fan of 'it just works' experiences if possible so I might be the target audience.

But I'm very happy with Fedora for quite a while now. I'm still amazed how stable it is even with very frequent updates as well as very current software overall. So it would just be switching for the sake of doing it and I try not to do that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Latest kernel for fedora has rendered my system unbootable. I'm either going to reinstall fedora or hop to Debian. Such a shame, fedora has been great to me for years.

[–] RQG 2 points 2 years ago

Nvidia User? It happens to me too every so often on kernel updates. I usually just tell grub to boot the old Kernel Version for a few days until driver updates etc. come in. Then everything is back to working again with the newest kernel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Switched to it from Gentoo last week because I was tired of compiling WebKit every other day. It's a really solid release, I think with flatpaks this Debian will age much better.