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Dankeschön @Charlie_1963 Ralph

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@roiter @UncleSpellbinder @Dinomonster @shadow359 @kjw @dirtydog @DsturbD @drunkenvicar @anon26269396 @smokey

Good morning and thank you all for the warm welcome :slight_smile:

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Servus @swh :slight_smile:

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Welcome, Andreas! Enjoy your time here.

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Thank you @SdW

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Currently multi-booting Debian Stable (for stability), Debian Unstable (for the new shiny stuff), and Arch Linux (also for the new shiny stuff).

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Hi @oldthinker
thats also one solution :+1:
I do this with VMs

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If have used Debian Testing for ages and works well for me. I use both EOS and Debian Testing, give it try.

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I have EndeavourOS on my PC and Debian Testing on my laptop.

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I might be being stupid here (highly likely) but aren’t some packages missing from Debian Testing repos such as Mesa, Gtk & Qt. I’m guessing you just install stable then update your repo sources to point to Testing so you just get the updated packages?

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No idea.

Since there are no testing or unstable (SID) ISOs, there’s a procedure to go through by editing the sources.list.

Though some have used the “mini ISO” in “expert mode” to get unstable or testing up and running. For me, that worked for testing, but not unstable. So I just started over and installed the regular, current stable Bookworm ISO and went through the process of editing the sources.list and it worked well. Moved from stable to testing, then testing to unstable. I’m currently on unstable (SID) doing it that way.

SID is currently on kernel 6.12.5

  • For reference, here’s my sources.list. It includes all three repos, as you can see, “unstable” is uncommented, so I’m on SID (unstable)…
### DEBIAN STABLE ###

# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware


### DEBIAN TESTING ###

# deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware


### DEBIAN UNSTABLE ###

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

### After moving from 'stable' to 'testing' or 'unstable': sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade ###

# Set 'testing' or 'unstable' as Default-Release (Pin-Priority=990):
# echo APT::Default-Release "unstable"\;| sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/71debconfDefautlRelease
# OR
# echo APT::Default-Release "testing"\;| sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/71debconfDefautlRelease

# Install the firmware-linux metapackage from non-free to get microcode updates.
# sudo apt install firmware-linux
# Reboot, enjoy Debian.
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All images linked below are for the version of Debian Installer being developed for the next Debian release and will install Debian testing (trixie) by default.

To install Debian testing , we recommend you use the daily builds of the installer. The following images are available for daily builds:

“https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/”

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Yep. I saw that after I did it my way, otherwise I would have done it that way. While my way may have taken longer by one step (to get to SID), it worked just fine.

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your screenshot of Debian (4hour after install ) seem heavy , you do netinstall? or you load pkgs you need?

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Don’t know what you mean by “heavy”.

No.

As I said above, I ended up installing the regular, current stable Bookworm ISO (KDE Plasma) and went through the process of editing the sources.list and it worked well. Moved from stable to testing, then testing to unstable. I’m currently on unstable (SID) doing it that way.

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I have both as well, Debian Testing and EOS on different computers. Long time Debian user as well and really like EOS.

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