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).

  • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzOP
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    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.

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      3 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?

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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.