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New Debian 13 is great!! I really enjoy the new GNOME, and I like the fact that now I actually only a small number of extras/addons on top of the baseline. That gives me comfort that if I'm installing this from scratch it would do well out of the box.

I recklessly installed this over existing Debian 12. The install wasn't as smooth as hoped - it bricked it a bit during installation and GnomeSession wouldn't start, since I had some old config in `~/.config/xkb/`, but nothing that ctrl+alt+F2 wouldn't solve 😉

If you are reckless like me, then you just need to replace the word

"bookworm" in `/etc/apt/sources.list` with the word "trixie", save and then run

`sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove` and reboot.

#debian #trixie

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Highsselhoff 4mo ago

Looking nice! Might set it up over an old Mint install

nout 4mo ago

I really enjoy it. One trick I recommend is to use the netinst install and really install only the bare minimum of apps to make it work and then install what you actually use manually.

E.g. I'd first install it without desktop environment and then add gnome-core manually. So from commandline right after install:

apt install sudo

apt install gnome-core

# Set GUI login for next time

systemctl enable gdm && systemctl set-default graphical.target

# install basics

apt install zsh flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Highsselhoff 4mo ago

Nice! Thanks for the tip

Enki 4mo ago

I've been running 13 for a little while. I got a newer laptop and needed to use it because 12 didn't support the newer hardware. 😅 im on KDE though. Not gnome.