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The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements

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

Switching from Microsoft Windows to Linux is one of the best decision I ever made.

Thank you to the thousands of Debian volunteers. You are amazing people ❤️

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Gnome finally has fractional scaling in this one, for anyone wondering.
- Does this mean it will run properly on systems with multiple, different resolution, displays?
  
  Should work as long as you're using Wayland. It works great for me in Fedora, and I assume Debian will have all the latest parts now too.
i know people usually are like, “oh cool new features”
but this has a security patch that will literally unblock my pipelines at work lol 🎉
- Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?
  
  i don’t know the full nature of the exploit, but zlib has an exploitable integer overflow via the MiniZip project. even though our images don’t use that project.
  https://github.com/madler/zlib/issues/868
Speaking of debian - anyone here running debian testing as a daily driver? I really enjoy debian as a kind of "default" Linux but the rare updates and the need to upgrade the whole system when a major update hits annoys me, so rolling release feels better, but I'm worried Debian Testing is unstable? But I've heard it's not so bad? Anyone got any opinion on that?
- Debian Testing is unstable?
  Naw, Debian Unstable is unstable. /s
  Jokes aside, I don't think I'd use Debian as a daily driver for desktop Linux, and I really like Debian. Now, for a server? Debian all day erry day. But as soon as a GUI is needed, I'm gonna look to another distro. For context though, that's mainly because my daily driver needs to be gaming capable, and I have a very recent GPU. Debian 13 has Mesa 25.0, but 25.1 and 25.2 have fixes that keep some of the games I play from crapping out.
  
  Yeah, if you really want a taste of Debian desktop, LMDE is probably where I'd start.
  
  So what distro do you use? I definitely am also including gaming in the considerations.
- I have been running testing for years on most (except production servers or as i like to call them: Computers with a job) of my machines including desktop and gaming pc.
  It works fine, BUT there will be times when something is not as it should (one recent example was some wayland related glitches, but nothing really bad), or you buy new hardware and need the latest graphics drives that are not even in testing yet.
  It's perfectly viable to use AND you get to help make debian better with the occational bug report/additional info.
- Daily driver here. Stable for servers, testing for workstations.
  Debian Testing isn't as stable as Stable, but has been far more reliable than anyone else's desktop releases. I'm also not a fan of Fedora and others' policy of ending support on the day of a new release.
  If for some reason you decide to hold back on an upgrade of Testing, you've still got five years of patch support coming. And if I do want to live on the bleeding edge, there's always Sid (also called Unstable). That's where you'll run into the kind of instability you can expect from a rolling release.
  My favorite will probably always be Gentoo, but I don't always have time for that hobby.
  
  I’m not a fan of fedora too I have to agree with you
- Not me, i just use Stable Debian.
  I only Put Debian Stable on Computers I will rarely use. I wouldn't use Debian on a Gaming pc, I would prefer a rolling release (Arch based) Or fix release every 6 months
  
  On a gaming PC, what arch distro would you use?
- I used to, and the going wisdom there is to point it to the name of the next release, then once it releases, wait for the first point release before repeating with the next release.
  The reasoning here is that once there's a new release, there's a ton of churn on testing as people pull in packages from unstable, so that's the time of the most breakage. So wait a bit for things to stabilize after a major release.
- Speaking of debian - anyone here running debian testing as a daily driver?
  I do, though usually not early in the release cycle. Normally I use stable, then pull the occasional thing in from testing if I want it and it's not in stable, and switch to testing if there's a bunch of stuff I want.
  Right now, I'm on stable because trixie just went stable.
- I used to run Debian Testing and it borked my install - never had that problem on e.g. Arch. I feel like because it's not a rolling release as the default but explicitly for developers, it's less stable. But that might just have been bad luck.
- I've been running sid (unstable) on my htpc for almost a year now without any problems (wanted Debian, because that's what I know, but also wanted HDR support, which came with plasma 6, wichich was only in sid). Just as stable as Bookworm so far (anecdotally).
  I've actually been thinking of moving my main desktop from mint Debian edition over to sid as well.
  Sid is even one step more unstable then testing, so testing should be no problem either
Been running SID forever on my servers. Thank you Debian for being my rock.
Hell yeah, i love Debian, its such a Great and Powerful OS.
- Great and Powerful OS.
  loved this
Debian is my favorite distro. I've used it for years.
Looove me some Debian!
Like a lot of other people here I only use Debian for servers. However i recently (couple of months ago) spun up PikaOS (gaming oriented OS) that is based om Debiam Testing but have applied the patches from CachyOS and Nobara. Its a been a pleasure to use so far and hope to see ots community grow.
https://wiki.pika-os.com/en/home
Noob here. My last distro was Zorin (which I liked well enough). Keen to switch to Debian base. Should I jump in and install vanilla Debian or wait for Mint Debian 7? Or should I believe the DistroWatch hype and go for MX?
Would prefer Xfce environment because I'll be running it on 8+ yo laptop and and desktop.
- Get base Debian, you'll have more options for desktop environment. Once you get past the installation hassle it should just work for the rest of times. MX has its place but it's specifically made to have no systemd which may not be something a new user is looking for. It feels very opinionated, is what I'm trying to say. May be your thing of course, but I'd recommend reading more on its philosophy before picking.
  8 years is probably not old enough to require lighter desktops if the machines were at least mid range at the time. You should be able to use gnome or KDE as you please. Nothing against XFCE in principle, but it can be a little clunky especially for a laptop. No touch gestures, for example.
  
  tnx for the reply
- If you're a noob, what made you go with Debian in the first place?
  I want to be clear, there's nothing wrong with that, just not the usual path for a new Linux user.
  
  I liked Zorin (often recommended for users coming from Windows) which is based off Ubuntu which in turn is based off Debian. Not a fan of Snaps, though. I also value stability over blistering performance and bleeding edge features.
Debian is releasing a Trixie Mattel edition? Is it all pink? How fun!
- Trixie from Toy Story. Debian's releases are always toy story characters
  
  I was thinking of a Trixie from Hasbro
Update day! YES!
I’m waiting to more feedbacks and I will try it after

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