I achieved this with KDE by doing an absolute minimum Debian install and not installing a desktop environment.
There's also usually a minimal installation that's just the bare bones without all the extra bloat for most desktop environments. So it takes a little bit of extra work But the end result is completely clean install.
I'm just not a fan of KDE. I prefer GNOME, especially the newest versions are so smooth, clean and smart.
Sure, my point being is you can probably do the same thing with gnome.
You can't get the new version of GNOME. When you install gnome-core on most recent Debian you get GNOME 43 and I would like GNOME 47...
Try Debian 13? It's technically the testing version of Debian but I've been using that as my daily driver for close to six or seven months now due to buying a newer laptop and I've had very little issues.
I'm not sure if by "most recent" you mean stable or testing.
Can you please check what version of GNOME it has? (Or you don't have GNOME at all?)
I dont have gnome at all but ill check half a sec.
Looks like its 47.6
That would be great, ok, I'll try this path
