Hello everyone,
After a few years on Lubuntu, I have decided to gradually move to Debian, first on my older desktop PC (2012), and if everything goes well, on my newer laptop too (2023).
I have started by installing Bookworm 12.6, and installing the OS went smooth, as well as finding and installing all the packages that I need. But then, I have noticed that the kernel version is quite much older than that of Lubuntu 24.04 that I still have on the laptop, and the laptop has significantly benefited from the new kernel version (most notably finally getting sound out of the internal speakers), so with the goal to have the same OS version on both machines, but with at least the kernel version currently on the laptop, I have looked up the Trixie kernel version, and since it was even slightly newer, I have decided to install it.
Some specs of my old PC: Sandy Bridge CPU i7-3930K on Asus Sabertooth X79 MB, 16 GB, nVidia GeForce GTX 690.
The installation process was not as smooth as for Bookworm. The graphical installation has entered in an endless loop while still in text mode (I think it was looping after complaining about not found display driver), so I have rebooted and started the text-mode installation that, to my surprise, was just as easy (and very similar to) the graphical installation of Bookworm. However, it has apparently hung up after choosing a mirror, with the progress bar at 34% (maybe connection problem has triggered it, but the installer was definitely unresponsive; had to use the Reset button to restart). But then, the second attempt has succeeded. The only unexpected outcome was that, in spite of having had to enter approximate location information (Africa, Ethiopia) during installation, after installation was complete, I have landed in ... London! The clock has given this away: it was two hours earlier than my wall clock. Did my locale choice, which was indeed en_GB, override the inputted location information? I don't know if this issue was also present in Bookworm; I did not notice it during its short "presence".
I was particularly pleased by the installer feature that it gives the option to use a different partition for /home, and that this partition can be easily preserved during subsequent installs.
I have mentioned my minor Trixie installer issues in the hope that they may be helpful for the people working on it, but overall, the installer is really well-done and intuitive, and once the OS with the familiar choice of DE on top of it was installed, and of course after having set some preferences, I have felt right at home, so thank you all!![:D]( "Very Happy")
After a few years on Lubuntu, I have decided to gradually move to Debian, first on my older desktop PC (2012), and if everything goes well, on my newer laptop too (2023).
I have started by installing Bookworm 12.6, and installing the OS went smooth, as well as finding and installing all the packages that I need. But then, I have noticed that the kernel version is quite much older than that of Lubuntu 24.04 that I still have on the laptop, and the laptop has significantly benefited from the new kernel version (most notably finally getting sound out of the internal speakers), so with the goal to have the same OS version on both machines, but with at least the kernel version currently on the laptop, I have looked up the Trixie kernel version, and since it was even slightly newer, I have decided to install it.
Some specs of my old PC: Sandy Bridge CPU i7-3930K on Asus Sabertooth X79 MB, 16 GB, nVidia GeForce GTX 690.
The installation process was not as smooth as for Bookworm. The graphical installation has entered in an endless loop while still in text mode (I think it was looping after complaining about not found display driver), so I have rebooted and started the text-mode installation that, to my surprise, was just as easy (and very similar to) the graphical installation of Bookworm. However, it has apparently hung up after choosing a mirror, with the progress bar at 34% (maybe connection problem has triggered it, but the installer was definitely unresponsive; had to use the Reset button to restart). But then, the second attempt has succeeded. The only unexpected outcome was that, in spite of having had to enter approximate location information (Africa, Ethiopia) during installation, after installation was complete, I have landed in ... London! The clock has given this away: it was two hours earlier than my wall clock. Did my locale choice, which was indeed en_GB, override the inputted location information? I don't know if this issue was also present in Bookworm; I did not notice it during its short "presence".
I was particularly pleased by the installer feature that it gives the option to use a different partition for /home, and that this partition can be easily preserved during subsequent installs.
I have mentioned my minor Trixie installer issues in the hope that they may be helpful for the people working on it, but overall, the installer is really well-done and intuitive, and once the OS with the familiar choice of DE on top of it was installed, and of course after having set some preferences, I have felt right at home, so thank you all!
Statistics: Posted by TiberiusKG — 2024-08-02 14:49 — Replies 0 — Views 16