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@alienghic the reason I moved from Debian to Ubuntu (for development and household laptop) was because it was easier to get drivers (ie you didn't have to) and in general most things worked well enough to ignore the few kinks.
But if that has gone away, Canonical's LLM dickery can go er away. I was already considering switching back so this is looking like a good time to plan that in.
I like/rely on the multi desktop feature of #Gnome. How easy is it to put that on #Debian, anyone?
@veronica
@happyborg @alienghic @veronica
Debian 13 (Trixie) comes with a bunch of drivers and media codecs out of the box now. So, probably no need to install Ubuntu for that reason. Try a live session and check if everything you need is aboard.
@happyborg @alienghic @veronica
I'd assume it's a simple
sudo apt install gnome-core -y
or
sudo apt install task-gnome-desktop -y
for everything
@cbdesu
Thanks, apparently it's now an installer option too.
@alienghic @veronica
@happyborg @alienghic @veronica
I like/rely on the multi desktop feature of Gnome. How easy is it to put that on #Debian, anyone?
Gnome is a checkbox at installation time, im running it on Debian right now. Are you talking about the workspaces feature? Gnome ships with that by default in any linux that has Gnome available.
@happyborg @trashheap @alienghic @veronica
If you didn't check the box during install, run 'sudo tasksel' and you will be presented with the same options.
For finer grained control on what gets installed (WRT DEs) search for the Debian Wiki on your desktop of choice. There are meta-packages that pull in more or less of what you want.
(Debian desktop user here - KDE/Plasma FTW.)
@HankB very helpful, thanks
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