Are you going to try it? What is your use case? What are you hoping to do with it?

I’ll be evaluating it as a potential default recommendation for new Linux users, and possibly daily driving on my personal home desktop (now Arch).

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    evaluating it as a potential default recommendation for new Linux users

    This is a thing people do? Evaluating new versions of a distro, to see if they can update their default recommendation for new Linux users? Which, I’m assuming it’s the previous version of the same distro. 😅

    I mean, TIL. That’s dedication.

    I don’t often get the chance to recommend distros to people, but I often want to know a little about what they’ll be using it for and what previous knowledge of computers they have, before recommending distros.

    Anyway, god’s work, thanks on the behalf of new users! Arch btw!

    • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I organise events to help people switch to Linux so for that yes it’s actually helpful to evaluate so you’re not giving out some unhinged advice :)

      Specifically Debian changes quite a bit between releases.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        That definitely is god’s work! Thanks for doing that!

        Oh, I didn’t know it changes between versions that significantly. What is an example of a significant change between Debian versions from before?

        • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I think the most significant user-facing change is what versions of the most common desktop environments are included. In this Debian version they seem to be especially recent compared to previous ones (Gnome 48 / KDE 6.3). This means it’s only a few months behind Arch in desktop features right now. Of course it will get old as time progresses, but for changing from another system now is probably the smoothest.

          I was also looking to see if the installer offers an automatic setup for encrypted root with btrfs subvolumes, which is my go-to for laptop installs, alas it does not. Btrfs snapshotting is such a neat feature that I’m going to bring this up for anyone who seems even a bit like a power user. With manual setup it should be possible to do this, so I’ll be seeing how easy it is to do that.