I recently switched my Linux distro from Pop OS to Debian. I’m not entirely sure what made me want to switch. Pop OS was great and I was really making myself at home with it. Something just felt missing though.
I got to exploring around and decided to try Fedora first, but that ended quickly. Fedora 44 pushing Wayland was the culprit. Wayland and Nvidia just don’t play nice together, and I was getting random hard system freezes that killed the experience before I could even try gaming.
I talked to Claude pretty extensively trying to find a new distro and Debian came up. Claude admitted it didn’t suggest it at first because of it being a more older “boring” distro, but it was stable. Stable was the keyword I needed.
Debian with GNOME is a pretty vanilla Linux experience but it’s perfect. Debian 13 Trixie with the 550 Nvidia driver has had zero issues for the week I’ve been running it so far. Zero.
I highly enjoy the vanilla GNOME experience opposed to Pop OS’s Cosmic thing. I was on 22.04 where I’m not sure how much was Cosmic and how much was GNOME — it seemed like I caught them in a weird transition stage.
The ecosystem of Debian appeals to me a lot more I think. I love it. That’s all.