I'm still noob when it comes to running Linux. Debian has always been my favourite - just the philosophy behind it, but also the stability and broad usage. First OS book I read fully was on Debian. Then coming to try using Debian, it failed me (some things didn't work and I couldn't figure out how to fix it) multiple times. However, Debian 12 was the turning point and Debian 13 seems to work at least as good.

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

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.

Seems nice so far. Wayland works better than in 12, but still has issues with nvidia drivers + KDE Plasma combo. Some software (Signal desktop, discord at least) have a really annoying flickering going on, and toggling Vsync on/off crashes any software that tries it. Swapped to X11 instead, and it works like a charm.

Its the small window where Debian is relatively modern, in a couple of months it'll be stale again.

Debian users tend to just get on with using their computers and don't make it their personality. Why you'll only hear from them every 2 years.

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

It's boring and predictable, which is precisely what I want from a distribution. It also benefits from not being a desktop OS, or a server OS, or an embedded OS, it's all of those: learning Debian is useful even if you hate it and don't run it personally because you will encounter it somewhere.

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.

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.

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 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 great. It's the most "just works" experience I've had with Linux.

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

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.

I made an in-place upgrade from 12 and it Just Works™

That's all I care about.

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.

I like how you have more Wayland packages

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.)

Im running Trixie and have been for a few months now. I switched over back when it was good enough for me but still in testing. Not sure what to say about it. It works. Has lots of software available. Don't really run into bugs or anything. Updates are quick and easy. Just Debian stuff i guess. I use a laptop thats like 5 years old so i have no need for the bleeding edge support Arch offers, and Debian is just easy.