Debian is like retirement on a nice house in the countryside: it’s a predictable life of peace and comfort

I used sed to replace my apt sources.list entries with Trixie…then ran sudo apt update, sudo apt dist-upgrade.

After one reboot my system was updated. Debian is basically that 80 year old tractor on the farm that still starts after sitting for 6 months with no effort. It just works. And that’s why I love it.

It’s like the old Debian but with newer software.

I guess the wayland stuff works ok now. That wasn’t quite ready for the mainstream in the last release.

I love Debian stable and use it on most my computers, servers included. I love that it is boring, that potentially breaking updates occur only every release and I usually wait a bit before I apply them. For the rare software where I want (rarely need) a more recent version, there are backports, flatpaks, or sometimes 3rd party repos, or even build-yourself-from-the-README if I’m really in the mood.

It’s really popular in the server world, and it’s the foundation of many other distros, maybe that’s why?

The update from Debian 12 took me four hours. It works. Plasma did not load so I had to clear old configuration files and configure it anew. Plasma on Wayland is actually usable now, and looks stable so far. And I’ve got new wallpapers I’ve so desired.

And now it’s time to forget about OS updates for another two years.

I use Debian as my main distro. Ive played with stable, testing, and unstable over the past few years. I’m confident Trixie is perfectly fine for stable. It looked fine the last few months I used it in testing.

If old stable didn’t impress you, Trixie isn’t gonna be any different. The hype is just because a release happened, we don’t get those in Debian land very often.

Most of what I know about Trixie is that it was so easy to upgrade that the only configuration I had to fix was changing the clock back to 24hr time.

Despite the major version jump, the update just works. One hour to download and install and one hour of housekeeping, but that’s on me for messing with configs most people wouldn’t ever touch and finding a replacement for a deprecated package. New features for me to check out at my leisure, all well-tested with no disruption to my established workflow.

Updated my laptop from bookworm this morning. I had to configure dnsmasq, but otherwise it seems fine. (Wait, I think I configured it wrong… It’s okay for home, but name servers could be different if I’m somewhere else. I’ll have to check that.)

My systems always run Debian, and they always run. Trixie is no different.