Thoughts on Debian 12 Bookworm plus Downloading the ISO 

I appreciate the Ventoy mention. It really has made switching OSs easy for me. I no longer have to go through the process of finding a tool that works for my current OS, knowing that that knowledge won't help me with my new OS.

Thanks for much needed Debian love, it is sad like most of the time ppl do not appreciate what Debian is and what it offers in the Linux world. Thank you.

Hey hey, sending this from my Debian Bookworm machine. Was rocking Fedora Silverblue but felt some nostalgia for Debian, having been my first ever distribution, and decided to install it on bare metal to ride it out for a few months. See how that goes. I'm keeping everything either Apt/Deb or building by hand, which is very little of significant impact beyond a window manager. Also sticking to stable. I am using doas instead of sudo and the Calm Window Manager (CWM), both of which are from the OpenBSD project. I followed your steps on setting up brtfs and timeshift. Very handy stuff btw.

Been using bookworm for around 6 months. I like the xfce desktop. But is about time I back up things. Debian is my favorite distro too.

I'm writing from a Debian Bookworm machine also and I always loved this distro. I don't need anything else. :)

I tun Mx Linux XFCE which is Debian based. It is moving to Debian 12. The new Debian base will make it easier for Debian based distros to work on their special tools not just adding firmware because Core Debian did not include it. I have one machine with an extremely low performance processor. I might switch to Debian 12 plus selected Flatpaks on that machine. I do not need most of what a full distro install puts on that machine. Once MX uses a Debian 12 base virtually all my systems will be running the same core software. MX already supports Flatpaks well, so I can run the same set of Flatpak apps everywhere. I applaud this move by Debian to improve the greater Debian community.

Debian 12.1 and SID are the best Linux systems at this time. My first Linux days were in June 2023 and I did the Ubuntu-POP-Mint-MX-etc hop. Debian 12.1 with plasma is really very good.

They have the latest KDE, and that’s all I care about, tbh. I’ve been running bookworm as testing for months, and it works great.

I've tried debian a couple of times. I feel like this is the best so far. As for keeping up with software, the stuff I need to keep updated is flatpak not Deb repository so I'm happy. Also I think I'll be happy with Gnome 43 for a couple of years? It's a significant update from the past. 44 has some improvements but I don't think it is anything too serious.

The Debian installer probably remains antiquated looking because they keep one code base that runs on a wide range of architectures, often with very limited ram and video hardware. People forget that, assuming only x86_64, lots of ram, and a modern video card.

Debian is the first, the best!

I like the decision of including the firmware or making the default iso the one with the firmware as opposed to before. MY life runs on debian literally

That freakin wallpaper!!! AWESOME!

Thanks man, good efforts 4:18 Please in the future, explain to beginners that # means admin/root and $ means user So whenever they encounter # they use sudo or su & exit once done

I'm in the same position. I'm looking for a stable base & enjoy learning as I run Linux as a tool & for fun exploring my communications interests. Going to install WattOS on my laptop & explore Debian. Ease of use is gd but when somthing goes wrong its gd to learn to fix it. Except Debian is rock solid like slackware. Usually what goes wrong is I break something then have to figure out how😂 Going to download it, thanks for sharing.

Solid and proven, stability and compatibility without headaches ;)

Thinking about trying debian 12 not sure, I love void linux it's simple and works so no reason to change.

Peppermint Is solid system.

Debian minimal is the best basis to build your Window Manager Setup. If you don't know how to do it just find a step by step guide on youtube. easy peasy, no bloat, 200mb of ram on cold boot :)

I'm switching from Fedora 37 to Debian 12 or MX Linux 23 with KDE Plasma.

Where is the option for just the base install? Can't use the netinstall because I don't a steady download connection. 👍 on you video, thank you

I know you mentioned it before, what are you using for your DM (lol, or lack there of - some sort of console login manager).

Only managed to get it down to 480M of RAM at boot, missed the 300M days already

Your dwm looks good.

wow, what a great idea to name your operating system like some kind of new malware. I've literally clicked on this video thinking it's warning about some new virus hahahah

I've installed Debian 12 Bookworm with KDE desktop net install, has anyone got an Nvidia GPU, and if so have you got that working with Wayland, or is it not possible?

Deb is the best

Been there and tried that with a full download - not about to depose MINT / Cinnamon on my daily drivers. Just installed LMDE 5 on the test bed with the usual easy / simple install, and yes I use Ventoy (really handy in my world).

just used your installer scripts again to install Deb12 with Awesome, so even if not using them for the specific wms/de, the scripts are very easy to edit and I get everything I need. One question, I paved over a Deb11 install because I didn't know if an encrypted install is meant to be upgraded. is it simple enough to just upgrade as normal after logging in?

You sound like DJ Ware

Was using testing worked fine on my core 2 duo, was excited for the Bookworm but the Firefox and few other apps didn't work., Now on void Linux its working great., 👍

Me i think this video shows why I dont recommend Debian, as not only is its installer archaic compared to say calamares for example but the downloads page is a royal mess. I would more opt for sparky or MX

Hi I usually use Xfce and Plasma, yesterday I installed Debian 12 with gnome, live ISO, on an old desktop PC. My daughter liked the style of gnome. Then unfortunately in trying to uninstall useless software it uninstalled gnome as well. Are you planning to make a video on how to install gnome minimal?

Still a black screen on reboot after install as an NVIDIA RTX user. Nothing has changed in Debian. NVIDIA users are still second class users for this distro.

fyou will change bookworm for testing or unstable

if you install debian 12 do a FRESH install, do NOT upgrade from 11 to 12!, I did a upgrade from 11 to 12 on 3 machines and ALL had bugs that made the system unusable...( settings and terminal would not open), THEN I did a fresh install and all 3 machines run fine EXCEPT smplayer will not run on 12. . there could be other bugs that need to be fixed. IMO if you are on 11 I would stay on it for another 6-12 months untill everything is worked out. . debian is my 4th choice in distros behind mint, ubuntu, and zorion. I would reccommend mint, zorion and ubuntu for new linux users and debian for those with experience..