Debian -- News -- Debian 13 "trixie" released

Proxmox 9 dropped too, their major releases coincide with Debian’s. Upgrade process on a single standalone box was completely uneventful; I’ll be trying a 9-node cluster on Monday.

Proxmox upgrade was flawless for me as well.

Oh yeah, gonna slap that bad boy on my laptop soon.

And I have some container updates to test!
I'm new to Linux, do you just wipe your computer when switching distros or dual boot or what?
- I HIGHLY recommend backing everything you give a fuck about and wiping the disk clean. Because windows breaks linux.
  Before you look at a list of distros and wonder which one to install, choose if you are __:
  Arch Linux -> if you think you know how linux exactly works (likely not)
  Arch-based distros (CachyOS, EndeavourOS, etc.) -> If you want to use arch but with some help
  Linux Mint -> Recommended for beginners.
  Fedora -> It just works :tm:
  Debian -> ol' reliable
  openSUSE -> If you tweaked windows
  Atomic Distros -> if you want a system that you can't break
- In this scenario if a user is using Debian 12 (Bookworm) and wanted to upgrade to Debian 13 (Trixie) it is possible to do by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file and replacing Bookworm with Trixie.
  Obviously consult the documentation and backup your files before making drastic changes to your operating system.
- I recommend anyone to do a backup (I haven't always and it bit me). However, if you create separate /home partition you can keep that between re-installs, even re-installs of different distros. And you can also share the same home partition between multiple OSs you might have installed at the same time.
  Sharing /home between distros can cause issues though: If one distro's $SOFTWARE is newer that the other distro's, they will still share the same dotfile configuration, and while most software is designed to deal with older configuration/database/etc files, older software many times cannot deal with newer files.
- Depends wholly on the situation. Right now, I needed Windows for a piece of hardware with no Linux support, so I installed Windows and just steamrolled my earlier openSUSE Leap installation. I will now dual boot with Debian for a while until I no longer need Windows.
  When switching distros, you can usually copy your config files over. Or you can have a separate /home partition that doesn't get wiped. This can cause issues though, due to version and structural differences between distros.
  Personally, I only save what I absolutely need, like say browser bookmarks, and prefer to just get a fresh start. So, I just wipe everything. How you want to go about it is up to what you feel comfortable with, however. There's rarely any one true way to do things in Linux. Free as in Freedom.
  Always remember to backup any data before switching distros though. Always.

Did a test upgrade on one. Really easy and without trouble. Tomorrow Ansible script to upgrade all.

It's very nice 🙏

So should I do a full reinstall or a dist-upgrade?

dist-upgrade is a lot faster and easier, and is usually well tested
I upgraded my distro relatively easily, had to purge and reinstall my nvidia packages & driver but other than that we’re back in action almost as if nothing changed.
KDE got a bit fancier with Plasma 6, a lot of themes no longer work.
- I read the upgrade notes and nothing seems changed for my setup (intel igpu and xfce4) so i'll wait for a few weeks and probably do an upgrade then
I've done 3 dist-upgrades... Just read the release notes and if not, at least the warnings that show up during the apt upgrade process... Dont just hit "yes" or "quit" on all the text