How to Install My Version of Linux 

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Thankyou Chris for giving your time, effort and simple explanation about Linux. It helped me alot in getting familiar with Linux. And I wish you and your family merry Christmas and best wishes. Love your videos. Please keep them coming. You're making a big impact on new Linux users and helping them getting familiar with the Linux. Thankyou once again. 😊🙏🏼

Niiice! I was really looking forward to this. Thank you so much Chris. Can’t wait to explore and play around

This is awesome! I’ve been waiting for this vid (as I prefer Debian over Arch). Don’t always get to watch the streams and I catch bits and pieces… last one I caught a little of, something wasn’t cooperating with you cause it couldn’t find the mirrors. Merry Christmas to y’all over here teaching and exploring Linux

Great stuff ! Love your videos and tips. I’ve just done a clear out from my attic and rebuilt a couple of old pcs and got …… Opensolaris and Solaris working. The good old days 😊 I love geeking around.

Looks nice and slick, Chris. Been following along with you building it... though not as often as I would have liked. Can't always catch your live stream. I'm doing something similar and making my own bspwm both on arch and debian (on two different machines). Really liking debian actually!

Awesome! the customization that you did looks really nice.

Merry Christmas to Chris and the Titus family.

Great work titus! Even DT has made DTOS. Now users have choice for tiling window managers, debian - bspwm, arch - xmonad!

Pretty cool project! I have been a Debian guy for many years. But even it installs a lot of stuff I would rather wasn't so integral that you lose the desktop to get rid of it. I look forward to a version of your project that is a little closer to my troubleshooting abilities. Merry Christmas!

Hi Chris i have literally just git cloned and updated to your Debian while watching the video a big thanks for making it easy to understand

Thank you very much for making this Chris, I will definitely try it!

Looking forward in this project

I really appreciate this video! I remember how much on-going work it is to set up a custom DE like this; I'm not ready to do that, yet, but I'm curious to try the tools you use which I haven't used before.

Love the work. Thanks Chris.

Thanks chris. Just got a 500 gb ssd to dual boot with this. Will be my main driver. I hope live streams continue to develop it, priceless

This is great, building a new PC today so I'll be setting this up on it!

I really appreciate seeing this very different way of using a computer. But it's definitely advanced! I'm guessing it's a good basis for what you showed in a recent video.. accessing several other OSs that are running on physically separate machines, each in a separate Desktop available from that lightweight Debian OS.

Merry Christmas to you too, Chris Titus Tech 🎄

Merry Christmas to you.

Very well done, and great to see you donating 50 % to Debian! It's very much needed.

Great stuff, Chris!! Wondering if you can do a video on sunshine setup with AMD gpu?

I am eager to try this;can't wait. I am personally more inclined to xmonad build.

Awesome video! Just a thought, but could you make a complete guide doing everything manually instead of install Debian and grab my personal repo… then it’s done??? Could be a whole series of videos even. Thanks!

I really like that with the Debian installer that you get to just choose which DE you want to use.

Love the video. Any plans on updating the scripts? I am running this setup now. Some weird issues with the power buttons and would love a deeper dive into setting some programs up the way that you have set them up. Thanks. Love the content

Been using arch with material awesome for about a year now, its working fine. But in the beginning a lot of trials and doing plenty of backups when something crashed it..anyways, gonna try this one since agreed that debian is alot more stable.I was on it before arch but audio trouble landed me with pipewire and it just seemed to work better in arch(prob since debian 10 was used :D) Anyways, great work titus! btw, love the method of having programs all starting up in a few dotfiles, thats gonna be useful.

Can't wait to get home and try it in a VM. Who knows, maybe it's gonna be my next host. I'm using Manjaro ATM because I need the 5.12+ kernel but you seem to have 5,16 I'm gonna check it out, could be a better host :)

That’s a cool way to do it. I am building a new system and I was think about using arch or Ubuntu server and adding my own desktop but I think I like this better…

I have been using this for at least a month and it's really fast, no stability issue and really a great choice to as a daily driver.

This comment doesn't have anything to do with this video. Didn't know how else to thank you. You gave me the courage to try to change my desktop environment and everything went wonderfully thank you. I've learned so much about Linux from you

Amazing...😃 One recommendation... Can you increase font size... Or while installing, can you zoomin that position of video where you are typing... It is harder to see on phone....

Interesting, I had thought your ultimate system was Arch (as fmlazar had said in an earlier post) going by your previous videos, did you change your mind, outlook or were we both mistaken ? NOTE: My favourite has always been Deb

I will use this for my future desktop build

Merry Christmas ✨❤🎁🎄😊👍🍻

Shirt ordered! Gonna have to try Debian before it shows up. Been an Arch fanboy for a while.

Amazing work! I really like the Nordic theme, it's very calming! Question: Will this work on WSLG by any chance? (with any sort of hacks)

I'm not too advanced in Linux but this was relatively easy to get set up and pretty nice to use as a daily OS I did read a few books on Linux and shell scripting a while back so I'm pretty comfortable with the command line and Vim/Vi etc. (anybody who wants the books for some reason: The Linux command line and shell scripting bible & The Linux bible & the other is if you are into *ethical* hacking the kali pen-testing bible)

I get the impression most Linux users spend 80% of their time installing and maintaining their system and 20% using it.

Hoo yesss this is what we need excellent video... And now please how to install the desktop.... Thanks

If you ever get around to trying Barrier, would you consider giving a quick review vs Synergy? I've used Synergy-1.8, but it tends to be a bit laggy. But, I like using it with RDP so that I can send special key combos to PCs I have supported in other spaces. Thanks again, for an awesome video! And now, for an awesome desktop!!!

I like it, I want it, i cant wait, lets install!

Merry Christmas Chris! I'll be playing with Debian-titus in a VM. The whole window manager thing is intriguing, but have had issues with running Handbrake GUI with them. Thanks for the link to Debian testing, it's a PITA to find! I hope to switch to plain Arch or Debian soon. Manjaro is getting too heavy handed in their approach to Arch for even my basic understanding of linux.

Yo Chris, cool vid! tried to install your version of linux tho and it's fairly different from your git. Is there any updated video on the matter?

Oh Chris! You told us Arch is stable, users are the one who breaks it. Now Debian? Anyways, Merry Christmas and thank you for being with us.

This is awesome. In your opinion, between Fedora and this setup with Debian which do you recommend in matter of “available packages” (newer versions)? Thank you!

Finally someone running Debian SID :)

Because debian-titus is installed on top of debian testing, I use it on my Kali install for work. I like the interface way better than the stock interface.

Can't wait to try this....on my wsl

Thanks Chris. Another great video and a solid choice with Debian. But you say "let's install Debian Testing" and then your script pulls the packages from Sid?

How well does this play with Nvidia hardware? Love what you are doing with this, hope to follow along even more as this progresses, saw Sid not be happily made into an iso in one of your previous livestreams hope the steps can be simplified/made elegant over time.

Nice vid!

Debian is an amazing OS for new HW incompatibility and several years old SW... Brilliant!

hi great video bro ! happy holidays to u n ur family ! GO Linux! Please do a video for us on the new linux PinePhone PRO ? also what do u think of garuda dragonized for daily driver? so pretty? can u really make mint or other look that good?

Now I got the shirt also.... :)

Hi Chris I've been a Debian based ubuntu user for more than 10 years, I've used almost all DEs, but I like the keyboard-driven control provided by WMs, so Now I'm using i3 over Xfce-Xubuntu for reduced complexity But I'll give your setup and try on a VM and see if it's OK for my needs. I tried arch, but it's not for me, not stable, updates take too much time and bandwidth, so Debian is awesome :)

Right on! There is only one Debian, and nevermind the cute Toy Story Theme (theirs a true backstory of why that's a thing for Debian) but it's still my tried and true no matter how many times I've tried to run an Ubuntu distro in its place! Edit* Nice work on your own sub-distro, for a while I loved peppermint, then I tried Sys76, but lately I've disregarded the theming given I usually run headless unless the project requires or benefits from a desktop, but like many I've been wanting to see the next successors to the latter two mentioned for desktop Deb based distros..

Spent yesterday learning this wm with a 60% keyboard. I had so much fun /s

Hey Chris nice video. What are you using for your screen magnifier, btw?

Thanks Chris. Tried it out in Proxmox VM and was having some issues but more than likely due to my inexperience. Would be great if could have an ARM version of Debian (preferably 64Bit) so could play around with this on Raspberry Pi.

Can you update your raspberry pi image or do a video on your thoughts on using box86/wine on your pi 4?

I miss your videos on odysee. Still this looks awesome

Well, I guess its time for a new Debian T-Shirt. Mine from 1999 is getting a bit worn.....

Very nice!

I noticed you mentioning that the script switches "down to Sid" around the 6 minute mark. Did you actually mean opposite? Or does it switch to Stable? :)

Ah Debian. Good stuff. I run Debian 11.3 on my main machine, so far been really good.

I was following along but get stuck at the 'git clone' step. It asks for username and password

Hey Chris, this is awesome! Could i somehow get that working within my Manjaro? Im currently on KDE but i wanna try something new! I've been using Manjaro KDE for about 2 btw!

Your skills are impressive...... I'll stick to the newbie installs when playing with Linux though.....

i was under the impression ur all about arch linux. i don't watch all ur videos so prolly just missed when u switched? although isn't distro hopping a standrad thing to do when ur into linux (no matter how deep)? lol happy new yarr!

chris or chat, I have a question, if I want to install alacritty I have to remove the /usr/local/bin file to create a /usr/local/bin directory. My question is the bin file important and can I recreate the bijn file in another location and create hooks towards the new location for the bin file ?

What kind of VM software do you recommend? Is Hyper-V any good?

Could you do a series of setting up cockpit on Debian

looks a little advanced for this windows/xubuntu user, but appreciate you offering this!!!

I heard you say on your Techlore interview that you use Fedora. Did you recently switch?

He has seen the light !

Newbie that installed Arch . It then broke now wanting to find a stable setup . Maybe different distro. Jaded with Linux. Too many Distros . Window managers and flavours of everthing .. it leaves newbies bewildered .... any recommendations? Love your channel!

What do you think of Slackware ? (I started using it in 1998, but mainly use windows)

Hey Chris, same as you I wanted to hard code most of the settings just to make the operating system very light. How do you adjust your audio settings? I'm trying to fix "snd_hda_intel" audio driver. I could not make the audio work after installing your version of debian. TIA!

I run Debian on most of my machines. It's still the best distro for me.

Bring back the shirts please!!

Well this video interested me enough to try it but using both KVM and Virtualbox, I get to the first login and the part where you have to nice looking icons along the top I have strange symbols, circles, right and let half-moons, etc. I have not tried on real hardware, but I'm curious what could have going wrong.

Great video tutorial, Chris! Did it today and pretty much everything went smoothly. One issue, though, is that clicking on any icons or menus in the top bar (apps or date & time) does not launch them. Has anyone reported this before?

Thank you for all that you provide in the world of technology and systems. I would like to ask how can I add another language besides English. I tried but could not. I mean for writing only and not changing the language of the system. thanks sir

Thank you

Guessing ly display manager can easily be used in place of sddm, also currently using deb testing how much more unstable is Sid from those that use it? Thanks 👍

I tried the debian titus install from your git hub, but i was not able to complete it. There is no wifi driver so i could not complete the steps as outlined in your video guide. I was trying to install this version of Linux in an old client hp pc that only has 8gb ssd. To get internet I would have to go to my router and plug ethernet cable directly to it. I was hoping to just use the wifi dongle that I have used with other linux distros in other computer in the past. I was kind of bummed out as i was looking forward to it. I suppose i dont know enough about linux to figure out how to get a driver or ocntinue the installation process with out network access.

Chris, I am trying to build an system with base on Arch. Why "debian" is more stable than Arch? I see more ways open in Arch than Debian, but I hate reading "wiki" because no videos or examples no screenshot or pictures about the processes is talking about!

interesting, this is way over my head I'm more familiar with the desktop than a server. ideally, this would suit someone in your position

Can you do a video on installing Linux on ARM computers? Common issues and solutions? That would be great for people with unsupported chromebooks and Android boxes they want to repurpose.

I like what I see so far but it doesn’t look ready yet, I can’t wait until you create a iso

I too had problems with picom in VMs and found out that vsync doesn't work properly in VMs.

Hi, I've been looking for a way to put a pop style recovery partition in debian, wasnt lucky so far. Any idea how to do it ?

Hey I've followed the tutorial to a T so far and my Variety won't change the background of the computer. What could you reckon could be causing that? any config files I should take a close look at?

I switched over from Debian to Fedora and I'm feeling a bit disappointed, seems like Fedora doesn't like my Hardware Ryzen 4650G. To many issues - System Freezes on lock, ffmpeg x11grab doesn't work. Looks like I'll go back to Debian again, may be I'll give your setup a try.

Hardcoding resolutions using Xorg only works for desktops. As a laptop user, I have multiple docks with different monitors which requires dynamic adjustment. And then there's the problem of presentations

Is there a way to do this on a wireless connection? I just cannot get my laptop to connect to wifi after the debian install is done.

Can you please update this to how you did it with Ubuntu and if you still use snap or not?

Taskbar along the top all in monochrome for me... and when I click on the power icon I'm getting placeholders for icons. FYI using VirtualBox

maybe you can clarify that debin sid is unstable and may not be such a good idea for a production machine