When I started to use linux, my first distribution was Ubuntu, but I changed soon to Debian because of its stability. I have been using Debian since the Buster version. After this last updating for Bookworm, I became to like still more. Everything that was already awesome in the last versions, now is better then ever, including its fantastic appearance, facility of use and programs installation. I never had security problems nor needed to come back to Windows. I really love Debian. Congratulations for your comments.
@@AM-pg2dr You have to backup your home folder, and next, install Debian from a flash drive. Your programs need to be installed again. And then, you restore your files from home folder that you made a back up.
did you encounter software compatibility issues with regards to software and games on debian? I've been using windows for years and still thinking of switching to linux. I'm still new though.
You really deserve an award for most positive Linux reviewer ever. If your whole life is like that, then you are a happy man indeed. I appreciate your reviews, have a great day!
You are right but sometimes it feels like he is telling only positives of a Linux Distribution but it is Evolved a Lot compared to the time when he Started.
People shoudn't be confused with the video: one thing is the distribution an another is the desktop. In my opinion a good review of Debian 12 could be check its energy consumtion, cold, stability, interaction to update, downloading and open apps, its installer (i see is the old one yet), etc. Obviously Gnome and KDE are awesome desktops (the best for me) but now it are not important. Nevertheless thank you very much.
I have been using the beta version and totally agree with your comments.I have the Gnome version on one laptop and the KDE version on an old HP laptop.
Please who can share url for download the stable version, because I don't find it into official debian portal, it is just RC4 but not stable version. Thx advance
Love Debian with Gnome. The king of all distros as far as I'm concerned. No nonsense, just a smart, fast, straightforward distro that gives you the freedom to make it your own and a very stable platform for developers. NVidia drivers can be a bit of a pain to install if you're not used to it but if you refer to the Debian Wiki, the steps are quite straightforward. Great review by Linux Tex; thank you.
I use MX Linux on a laptop that would always blue screen or crash randomly when it was on windows.. Debian based distributions are by far the most stable OS I've ever used though. Debian 12 doesn't look like anything new...but I'd def prefer Debian over anything else now. It's more user friendly and harder to break than other Linux distros. That includes Fedora IMO
Power saving options are great on Debian because of wayland since I run powertop, tlp and auto cpu freq with custom settings. I currently get the best battery life with those tools only because of Wayland.
Ya, right, I downloaded Debian to try on my VM. It took several hours to load up, and then the audio part would not work right. I also tried Zorin OS and had no trouble at all. Also, you cannot get help with Debian but you can with the Zorin Community. So, which do you thin people want to use?
Since Windows 10 security updates expire in October of 2025, we won't see waves of people switch until Summer of 2026 through Spring of 2027, that's my prediction, anyway.
@@megastarling I am thinking of changing from mx to debian 12, which DE should I choose, PC spec, Intel pentium processor, 2 core 4 thread 2.0ghz+(I forgot the processor name), 4gb of ram, 500gb hdd?
@@LinuxTex I am thinking of changing from mx to debian 12, which DE should I choose, PC spec, Intel pentium processor, 2 core 4 thread 2.0ghz+(I forgot the processor name), 4gb of ram, 500gb hdd?
thank you! My work is with CAD, using ActCAD (the most affordable CAD in 2023, btw!), and it's only for PCs. Anyone know how that CAD can be ported to Linux? I want to make the switch from MS10, but my CAD-software won't work. thanks for any suggestions!! know I'm NOT a Linux-user, so be kind :-) But, a CAD Designers since '82, so I know little. Sometimes.... Downloading D12 now!! subbed/liked
@@basilcat3111 sorry, basilcat, but FreeCAD is NOT "good enough" in the real world of architectural planwork. Might look cool onscreen, but Permit/Bid Plans are 2D, and most-all of the "free CAD" systems are NOT-suited for that. Maybe for parts?? For 3D visualization I'll defer to Sketchup Pro. I've earned my living Design/Building for 40+ years, and know a little about Planwork :-) ActCAD's price of $199/$299/$399 (Lifetime, all with 3D, the latter with BIM) is waaay-lower than the monopolistic "subscription" model now common with CAD! That's why folks "pirate" those CADs so often (be honest). ActCAD offers a free Trial (no limitations), so maybe go see what I mean? :-)
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I did a dist-upgrade from debian 11 to debian 12. Every thing went smoothly downloads, unpacking of new packages, removing old obsolete packages etc. Once everything was done, then I re-booted my laptop. To my surprise linux-image did not upgrade from 5.10 to 6.1 as expected. I had to manually install it and remove the old linux-image. Is there any explanation for this. Why dist-upgrade did not do complete upgrade of all software including linux-image
please tell me can I install this on my Alienware x14 as it is must required for me but after reading many blogs I found some of the hardware may get disabled such as backlit, please give some info for that also. Thanks in advance
I'm no tech geek, mostly a gamer. using linux is too complex when installing mainstream apps; Steam, epic launcher and such. otherwise I would love to use it over this microsoft scam called windows 11
nice vid..i was in dilema either to pick debian or fedora...good thing for debian that is LTS, but in other hand fedora 38 has the latest and greatest stuff..but only 2 years support..i spend many hours configuring fedora etc..question: as i am an ex windows user..what happens if i decide to upgrade to next version of fedora..do i loose the drivers and apps that i installed? UI setup (gnome tweaks, extensions???
It's really good. My gaming computer is a Windows machine, so I don't need Linux. However, I have a 5-year-old potato laptop, so you can suggest some light distros. On my laptop, nearly all your suggested distro on the lightweight distro video is a bit slow.
antiX is the most lightweight distro that’s still easy to use. Any lighter than that and you’re giving up a lot. AntiX idles around 150mb of RAM. Really light. Works great on my ‘07 laptop.
Hey @@1234enzor sorry, I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I've seen a couple of his videos and he always says that and I was interested and wondered if he maybe forgot to open it or something like that.
is it that that we have to add to sources list to upgrade to Debian 12? bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-free bookworm-updates main contrib non-free-firmware non-free bookworm-security main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
@@radicaledward9486 Snap itself is completely free and open source and many parts of the Snap store are open source like the web-store front-end, the automatic review tools, the build service, the desktop store app, and many more. Only the back-end hosting the snaps, however, is still proprietary. That can be helped with building and hosting an own Snap store variant. And Debian 12 does provide non free software, however there is a choice to either add those or not. So, basically everything you said there is completely false. For the other user, OPer: no, Debian does NOT come with snaps. That would be Ubuntu.
I really don't get people that waste time with desktop environments, just use a window manager save resources and become more efficient at the same time.
yes yes debian is only you need. if you want ubuntu just install theme oh oh. ubuntu stable = debian alpha beta testing. and all based ubuntu is that lol. there is reason why linux desktop is still just 3% THERE IS TOO MANY!. and its only choose kernel and what window manager and install theme. thats distro. you can make it yourself. just use debian good tools oh yes. debian lol or you can forget install desktop enviroment just stay in shell THATS LINUX. too bad windows have WSL we not actually need linux on virtual machine anymore. if linux want win windows make one OS and distros is themes
no videos on youtube is telling that. bummer. especially because it is not as usual because of the need to add non-free-firmware in sources list. and on the debian wiki, it is far to be clear...
@@mohammedF976 when I installed it on my system it was giving an AMDCPU error. Once I installed Ubuntu, I was no longer getting the AMDCPU error. I tried several times to install Debian 12. My rule is if you can’t even install, you’re not worth my time hence my opinion of bookworm.
Where do you live? Your arrogance is blind westener. Not everyone has 2000k to buy a macbook. Besides, you're basically saying you want the world to be destroyed as a result of your senseless thinking.
Pipewire built in is a good idea. I installed Pipewire myself, but it's hard to get right yourself. In fact I get error messages from grub about wireplumber.
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is he active with Nvidia cards like 3070?
As always, another great review. I'm moving from 11 to 12 this week so it was nice to get a detailed heads up first. Thank you very much :)
When I started to use linux, my first distribution was Ubuntu, but I changed soon to Debian because of its stability. I have been using Debian since the Buster version. After this last updating for Bookworm, I became to like still more. Everything that was already awesome in the last versions, now is better then ever, including its fantastic appearance, facility of use and programs installation. I never had security problems nor needed to come back to Windows. I really love Debian. Congratulations for your comments.
How to switch to debian from ubuntu lts
@@AM-pg2dr You have to backup your home folder, and next, install Debian from a flash drive. Your programs need to be installed again. And then, you restore your files from home folder that you made a back up.
did you encounter software compatibility issues with regards to software and games on debian? I've been using windows for years and still thinking of switching to linux. I'm still new though.
@@Bigboy-tb7ftif you want to play games, stick to windows
hello i was thinking of switching to debian 12. I have been using window my whole life and dont have any experience with linux give me some tips
You really deserve an award for most positive Linux reviewer ever. If your whole life is like that, then you are a happy man indeed. I appreciate your reviews, have a great day!
You are right but sometimes it feels like he is telling only positives of a Linux Distribution but it is Evolved a Lot compared to the time when he Started.
Excellent overview! You clearly put a lot of effort into making this video. Much appreciated and enjoyed. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you👍
now it will be nice to see how other debian based distros implement v12 in their system
People shoudn't be confused with the video: one thing is the distribution an another is the desktop. In my opinion a good review of Debian 12 could be check its energy consumtion, cold, stability, interaction to update, downloading and open apps, its installer (i see is the old one yet), etc. Obviously Gnome and KDE are awesome desktops (the best for me) but now it are not important. Nevertheless thank you very much.
I havent seen a Linux distro release this good in a long long time,
Debian + Plasma 5.27 = ❤
Arch + Plasma = ❤❤❤
@@hamzayousa_f Arch and Debian, either way, we all use Linux.
Kde Plasma 💔 | Gnome ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@pengamatkonoha45 Linux is about choice, always remember 😉
@@hamzayousa_f what device u using bro, I'm from Pakistan
WOW- thanks for the GREAT REVIEW-- you covered all relative points simply and without a lot of useless jabber.. again- THANKS..
I've subscribed. I love your style dude.
I'm really excited for Debian 12.
It's great to see how much passion you have for Debian. Thank You.
Gnome 43 = Fedora 37 (Nov 2022 software) .... very excellent for Debian
I have been using the beta version and totally agree with your comments.I have the Gnome version on one laptop and the KDE version on an old HP laptop.
💔 Kde Plasma
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Gnome
I can't wait for the next version of Zorin OS!
Please who can share url for download the stable version, because I don't find it into official debian portal, it is just RC4 but not stable version. Thx advance
Love Debian with Gnome. The king of all distros as far as I'm concerned. No nonsense, just a smart, fast, straightforward distro that gives you the freedom to make it your own and a very stable platform for developers. NVidia drivers can be a bit of a pain to install if you're not used to it but if you refer to the Debian Wiki, the steps are quite straightforward. Great review by Linux Tex; thank you.
Only microsoft office & some adobe software , I stuck in Windows. If linux team worked in these, many people will move to Linux
I think I'm switching to Debian 12 I really like it
I use MX Linux on a laptop that would always blue screen or crash randomly when it was on windows.. Debian based distributions are by far the most stable OS I've ever used though. Debian 12 doesn't look like anything new...but I'd def prefer Debian over anything else now. It's more user friendly and harder to break than other Linux distros. That includes Fedora IMO
It started with it and it will end with it. Many users will switch to Debian even me too. Soon or later.
Debian gets awesome
I would say Zorin 17 is the biggest release of the year :D lol
Debian 12 will bring a lot of improvements to many distros though
great video as always!💚💚
Great video again!
Ah man.. I was not a subscriber to you anymore.. 😢 I've missed so many of your awesome videos.. oh well, now I have a lot to watch 😂😋
😉 thank you Chris
It really is freaking fantastic!
Can you tell me some distro which support emualtor like gameloop and bluestack
Power saving options are great on Debian because of wayland since I run powertop, tlp and auto cpu freq with custom settings. I currently get the best battery life with those tools only because of Wayland.
No Matter how Ugly a Desktop environment Looks with Your Brilliant Editing it Looks Like Heaven Unless it is Windows or Macintosh.
how has he edited that and made it so beautiful any video or guide?
great vid thank you, could you do a vid on verifying signatures on Debian please
Where is download link? i can ether only find release candidate or Debian 11
which environment is best for performance and userfriendiness, also is xfce also have good ui like gnome,
Ya, right, I downloaded Debian to try on my VM. It took several hours to load up, and then the audio part would not work right. I also tried Zorin OS and had no trouble at all. Also, you cannot get help with Debian but you can with the Zorin Community. So, which do you thin people want to use?
and Where is the link for download?😠
maybe many windows 10 user in 2025 will switch to this i hope more app and games developer can adapt linux world too
Since Windows 10 security updates expire in October of 2025, we won't see waves of people switch until Summer of 2026 through Spring of 2027, that's my prediction, anyway.
Looking very good 👍
Is it good for gaming?
Linux is good, but for desktop users its not comparable to windows. Gaming, Video Editing, Music Making, app installing everything is nightmare
What’s is the best gaming Linux for Intel 13700kf and rtx 4090?
Arch users be like ... "we've been enjoying the latest kernel for quite sometime already; so what's new?"
Why debian 12 lts is still not released ? I mean in website it is still debian 11 as stable and 12 as testing
Same here... I definitely abuse refreshing their website today.
Debian 12 will release on June 10th.
@@LinuxTex and today is 10th June and only few hours remaining for 11th
@@megastarling I am thinking of changing from mx to debian 12, which DE should I choose, PC spec, Intel pentium processor, 2 core 4 thread 2.0ghz+(I forgot the processor name), 4gb of ram, 500gb hdd?
@@LinuxTex I am thinking of changing from mx to debian 12, which DE should I choose, PC spec, Intel pentium processor, 2 core 4 thread 2.0ghz+(I forgot the processor name), 4gb of ram, 500gb hdd?
Wayland is implemented ? My downloaded KDE live iso is reporting Xorg graphic server ....
Can You Make Video How To Install In Windows Laptop and how about if we use windows application / software, is it compatible?
Hi, I'm the biggest fan of yours... Can you please share the wallpaper used in the thumbnail?? and also the one in 08:14
Thank you so much buddy.. it's a default gnome wallpaper
Friend, when you review a new version of debian, you must talk about what changed in the core. You're talking about desktop environment.
thank you! My work is with CAD, using ActCAD (the most affordable CAD in 2023, btw!), and it's only for PCs. Anyone know how that CAD can be ported to Linux? I want to make the switch from MS10, but my CAD-software won't work. thanks for any suggestions!! know I'm NOT a Linux-user, so be kind :-) But, a CAD Designers since '82, so I know little. Sometimes.... Downloading D12 now!! subbed/liked
FREECAD
@@basilcat3111 sorry, basilcat, but FreeCAD is NOT "good enough" in the real world of architectural planwork. Might look cool onscreen, but Permit/Bid Plans are 2D, and most-all of the "free CAD" systems are NOT-suited for that. Maybe for parts?? For 3D visualization I'll defer to Sketchup Pro. I've earned my living Design/Building for 40+ years, and know a little about Planwork :-) ActCAD's price of $199/$299/$399 (Lifetime, all with 3D, the latter with BIM) is waaay-lower than the monopolistic "subscription" model now common with CAD! That's why folks "pirate" those CADs so often (be honest). ActCAD offers a free Trial (no limitations), so maybe go see what I mean? :-)
@@antoniiocaluso1071 You could try to run your software through a virtual machine like Bottles or VMware. This works for some people.
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Install wine
I did a dist-upgrade from debian 11 to debian 12. Every thing went smoothly downloads, unpacking of new packages, removing old obsolete packages etc. Once everything was done, then I re-booted my laptop. To my surprise linux-image did not upgrade from 5.10 to 6.1 as expected. I had to manually install it and remove the old linux-image. Is there any explanation for this. Why dist-upgrade did not do complete upgrade of all software including linux-image
I dont know anyone who has ever succeeded doing this
please tell me can I install this on my Alienware x14 as it is must required for me but after reading many blogs I found some of the hardware may get disabled such as backlit, please give some info for that also. Thanks in advance
Try in a Vm, VMware ,
@@leredempteur3011 sure
can I try it in hyper-v? virtual machin, vmare ? how?
Where is the link for download? It's not in the description. 😢
there is none so far on debian website, only old iso
I'm no tech geek, mostly a gamer. using linux is too complex when installing mainstream apps; Steam, epic launcher and such. otherwise I would love to use it over this microsoft scam called windows 11
Thanks..👍
nice vid..i was in dilema either to pick debian or fedora...good thing for debian that is LTS, but in other hand fedora 38 has the latest and greatest stuff..but only 2 years support..i spend many hours configuring fedora etc..question: as i am an ex windows user..what happens if i decide to upgrade to next version of fedora..do i loose the drivers and apps that i installed? UI setup (gnome tweaks, extensions???
no you won't loose... anything
@@nehalmushfiq141 such a relief:D thank you for your time and answer..I appreciate it
Why not both
link for download please
I want to use Linux instead of Windows 11 for Laptop. Which is recommended for laptop?
Fedora.
All hail Debian!
So beautiful
It's really good. My gaming computer is a Windows machine, so I don't need Linux. However, I have a 5-year-old potato laptop, so you can suggest some light distros. On my laptop, nearly all your suggested distro on the lightweight distro video is a bit slow.
EasyOS
Linux Mint will do a trick.
@@SBosna Thank you for this suggestion.
@@celdepescaun39 I will try it
antiX is the most lightweight distro that’s still easy to use. Any lighter than that and you’re giving up a lot. AntiX idles around 150mb of RAM. Really light. Works great on my ‘07 laptop.
Debian 12 should use a simple theme like APPLE does. Tired of their childish looking default themes.
Can anyone name the Desktop Environment used in the video?
Gnome 43 desktop
You keep saying to check out your Linux course, but it says that it is not open for enrollment. How's that?
Hey @@1234enzor sorry, I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I've seen a couple of his videos and he always says that and I was interested and wondered if he maybe forgot to open it or something like that.
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@@LinuxTex awesome! Thanks a lot
cool vid cool animations
Why even bother with Debian derivatives?
they need to fix the bug in bookworm that prevents smplayer from working properly. I installed it yesterday. hopefully they will fix this bug.
Where did you get those gnome backgrounds?
is it that that we have to add to sources list to upgrade to Debian 12?
bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
bookworm-updates main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
bookworm-security main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
Does it come with snaps preinstalled?
debian doesn't implement non free software
No.
@@radicaledward9486 Snap itself is completely free and open source and many parts of the Snap store are open source like the web-store front-end, the automatic review tools, the build service, the desktop store app, and many more. Only the back-end hosting the snaps, however, is still proprietary. That can be helped with building and hosting an own Snap store variant.
And Debian 12 does provide non free software, however there is a choice to either add those or not.
So, basically everything you said there is completely false.
For the other user, OPer: no, Debian does NOT come with snaps. That would be Ubuntu.
I will switch to Debian when it gets GNOME 47
Lubuntu is good enough for me
I really don't get people that waste time with desktop environments, just use a window manager save resources and become more efficient at the same time.
People have different, dare I say their own, preferences. Not everyone likes window managers, nor can adjust to. And that's fine.
it doesn't seem to work with hyprland very well yet otherwise i would probably switch to it
It looks exactly same as Fedora…
Why people use debian instead of windows is it because it's free ?
Yes. Also because it does not spy on you.
My WLAN worked with Debian 11 but not with Debian 12??? 🤯
book what? book wa? bo oh wo ah?
I couldn't make it work.
yes yes debian is only you need. if you want ubuntu just install theme oh oh.
ubuntu stable = debian alpha beta testing. and all based ubuntu is that lol.
there is reason why linux desktop is still just 3% THERE IS TOO MANY!.
and its only choose kernel and what window manager and install theme. thats distro.
you can make it yourself. just use debian good tools oh yes. debian lol
or you can forget install desktop enviroment just stay in shell THATS LINUX.
too bad windows have WSL we not actually need linux on virtual machine anymore.
if linux want win windows make one OS and distros is themes
Wish he mentioned LXQt.
bookworm name came from toy story 3 character ?
Yep! And next one is Trixie, from toy story 4 =)
@@alessandrooliveira497 really you not joking right? 😄
how to upgrade 11 to 12, today?
no videos on youtube is telling that. bummer. especially because it is not as usual because of the need to add non-free-firmware in sources list. and on the debian wiki, it is far to be clear...
Looks good
Version, not "wersion".
Le epic ❤
Wersion. xD
Debian 12 is garbage
How?
@@mohammedF976 when I installed it on my system it was giving an AMDCPU error. Once I installed Ubuntu, I was no longer getting the AMDCPU error. I tried several times to install Debian 12. My rule is if you can’t even install, you’re not worth my time hence my opinion of bookworm.
I'll wish Linux had windows xp/7/vista theme 😢,windows become more like mac os i'm trying move to linux
They do I think you're thinking of mint
Linux LXQT is just like windows 7 or XP
If you choose something like kubuntu, there are windows 7/xp themes avaliable.
lol linux garbage. anyone with sense who isn't using windows (which sucks) uses a Mac.
Where do you live? Your arrogance is blind westener. Not everyone has 2000k to buy a macbook. Besides, you're basically saying you want the world to be destroyed as a result of your senseless thinking.
Pipewire built in is a good idea. I installed Pipewire myself, but it's hard to get right yourself. In fact I get error messages from grub about wireplumber.