Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been running unstable for a couple decades now as my desktop. I’ve occasionally taken months-long forays into other distros, but always come back to Debian. It just works, which is what I care about.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s great. Not much else to say. You install it, it works, it doesn’t stop working unless you break it.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It works well, so long as you don’t mind your DE being a bit behind the latest version. With how much Plasma and Gnome have been improving in the past couple of years, that may matter a lot.

  To be honest, I think it makes more sense than it used to. You can have an extremely stable base, and if you want regularly updated user apps you can utilise Flatpaks.

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• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have many times. apt install whatever desktop environment you want is usually a one-liner, and they are the un-modified stock versions, not themed to whatever fancies the distro maintainer. It has been my low-effort distro for a lot of years for any purpose. Packages are on the stale-side, so you might want to use different package container types for your preferred applications nowadays.

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It works great with Plasma desktop

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• BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been running Debian stable on a ThinkPad as my everyday machine for over a decade. It just works. No issues.

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