Debian and KDE are a great combination and things have been running very smoothly so far. I think I have officially converted.
Highly recommend KDE connect. It’s the number one thing keeping me from experimenting other compositors, I just can’t see myself not having it.
Welcome to the Debian family :)
Could you share any particular points that made you switch? I’m currently on Manjaro and I was thinking of switching to Fedora. But now I’ve started hearing good things about Debian…not sure how to proceed!
Please don’t use manjaro: https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/
I recommend endeavoros if you want something arch based that’s pre-setup and configured.
But debian has a very diffferent usecase from arch, everything is kept up to date in arch, if you need recent versions of things, don’t use debian.
If you want things to not change, like on a server, or a workstation machine where you can’t risk a change breaking something, debian is great!
For gaming, i’d pick arch any day because gaming stuff is changing so fast. It’s also better for wayland since that’s also changing quickly.
Fedora is somewhat inbetween.
Manjaro offers the best version of Sway possible out-of-box but I asked already a decade ago that why Manjaro exists. Is it popular? The devs should kill it completely and use their resources helping other projects.
It is extremely popular, unfortunately, and endeavoros has a sway option
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/window-tiling-managers/sway/2022/01/
Debian 12 is the best Debian ever made. I overlooked it for decades because it was so painful to use but 12 changed everything. I’m waiting to see it reviewed against LMDE6, because I doubt LMDE6 could be better/faster/lighter.
Nice! I did the same not so long ago.
Discover works out-of-the-box? And do the drivers work correctly?
I myself would like to switch to Debian from Neon but I recently tried and the installation of the proprietary Nvidia drivers damaged my video input, and the open source drivers don’t have anywhere near the performance that the proprietary drivers have.
I couldn’t get the proprietary nvidia drivers to work with any wayland implementation except weston. Cinnamon worked fine, Plasma X11 worked but was unstable. I eventually gave up and fell back to nouveau and now Plasma wayland works A-okay.
Also I was not impressed with discover. It works, but it’s kind of slow and I didn’t really see an advantage over aptitude
edit: meant to specify that I was using the 500 series drivers that are new enough to support GBM, that’s pretty important
How good is the package availability? Are they reasonably up to date? I’ve never used pure Debian myself.
They are purposefully not up to date, the point of debian is to be as stable (meaning unchanging, not uncrashing) as possible.
I am waiting for MX 23 KDE edition.
congrats! however i gotta say that i am still waiting for the das that kde does not break for me… idk how others are so happy with it or what i am doing wrong…
Debian is great when it comes out. I always go back to something newer after a year. Rolling release isn’t really my style. But it can be nice to have recent mesa, glibc, kernel, etc.