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my general rule is to wait until at least the first point release or major update for any 'new' version of an os. so i won't be doing anything significant with trixie for a few months--just some testing on spare hardware similar to what it might end up on.

while i'm waiting for the new release glitches and bugs to get worked out, or at least identified, dietpi and lmde will get updated to the new stable branch. those will be my first use of trixie when the time comes. my actual bookworm desktop won't see an upgrade til next year some time.

Installed it on my desktop and the process was painful (my fault) because I ran out of space on my boot ssd (128Gigs) while doing the upgrades.

I don't really have much on my boot ssd and all my important data is on my laptop, backed up to my servers, or on my desktop's HDD. I did a fresh install with a kde live usb stick and that went smooth, until something with the nvidia drivers prevented the display server from launching.

Thankfully, I've been through this charade multiple times in the past, and I'm significantly more experienced in dealing with the kernel these days. Adding the nvidia-drm modeset kernel command line launch param worked, and my system is running deb 13. I'm so happy I have KDE plasma 6.

Overall, a one hour process. Could have been faster if I had free space on my system lol. I'm a bit more reluctant to upgrade my servers at the moment, but I may in the upcoming months.

One minor thing: they updated their apt sources (https://repolib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deb822-format.html, https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/498021/deb822-style-etc-apt-sources-list#583015). Idk why, but the installer didn't create & populate the .sources file. After a quick check of the man page, I created the file and it worked.

My main system runs Debian stable, so it will be running 13 at some point as well. For people who want a system that works and keeps working and don't buy new hardware all the time it's a good choice.

Have updated my 3 home servers to it. They're pretty bare, everything running on Docker. Works fine so far. Noticed a lot more sensors turning up on the Grafana dashboard since the update.

My work machine has been running flawlessly on testing (what is now Trixie) for the past 18 months.

I run Arch at home, btw, but Debian is always my default recommendation for anyone.

I've actually had my personal laptop on 13 since a few days ago. I'm using KDE, and the jump from Plasma 5 to 6 is pretty significant so it was quite exciting. The LUKS password prompt also got new look.

I'm still restless about the fact my favorite media player VLC is still stuck on Qt5. No, it's not Debian's fault, since VLC hasn't released anything for a few years now.

Installed Trixie on my desktop and laptop months ago. I have had zero complaints or issues with it. Plasma 6 is nice and clean. Gaming works flawlessly. It's probably been the nicest and easiest Linux install I've had in years. I've been using Linux since 2007. And I have a bad habit of tweaking things till they break. So far nothing reportable.

I got impatient and upgraded early a few days ago. Touchpad module still needs reloaded after waking from sleep, but haven't found any other problems yet. 👍🏻

At one point I'll have to upgrade my server. But for now I'll wait for things to settle down.

But if my experience from bullseye to bookworm is any indicator the upgrade to trixie will be trivial.

Already using Debian on my desktop so an upgrade will happen sooner or later.

I installed it on my new work laptop last week because bookworm lacked drivers for it. Works fine so far, except the audio card (intel) isn't recognized.

Gonna update my dated Debian 12. Those old KDE wallpapers already look unfashionable.

I would be using it, but just bought new hardware that even on experimental I couldn't get running. But I will run it in the future when debian supports the gpu.

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!