Debian 11 & i3

Note: not entering the password for root will give sudo privileges to the created user, I just like to have both users, personal preference.

In this video, I am going to do a base install of Debian 11 with the i3 Window Manager.

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My Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 9
32 GB RAM
Sapphire RX 5700 XT

My software:
Distro: Arch Linux
Video editing software: Kdenlive

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[Miguel_GM]

Great video. Remember that if you forget to run a command with sudo, you can do it by typing "sudo !!" instead of going to the previous command through history and add "sudo" to the begining ;) Cheers!

[daniloalmeida]

Thank you so much! I've followed your tuto and installed Debian 12 and i3. I was a few year using Windows only. Now I'm back to the Penguin

[sidicleisebastiao]

Congratulations Ermano, a nice contribution for the WM beginner, for the Debian user!
Greetings from Limoeiro, Pernambuco - Brazil!

[SuryaAnggraito]

Debian 11 with I3WM...!!! Wow... i will definitely use it! thank you very much, Ermanno..

[riseabove]

This is one of the most informative videos setting up Linux. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

[ivanhoe]

I can’t believe it! I have a virtual machine I boot into just to use a browser on my work VPN, and chose Linuxmint cinnamon for the purpose, but I recently realised that I didn’t need cinnamon and all the things, instead I thought I could try Debian with a window manager alone, and treat the VW almost like a special instance of a web browser, and here you go! Surely going to try this, thanks

[JM-sneb]

Great video.
I'm a Arch user (this channel checked me a lot with configuration).
Long time ago I tried for a short time Debian.
Till now I don't fully understand debian mirrors setup.
Would you consider creating short video about this?
If I'm correct there are source servers, backport servers and more. As I said I don't understand this

[DavidHaras]

Hi Ermanno nice video, oddly I installed Debian Bookworm (testing/semi-rolling) with KDE Plasma DE on Thursday; I thought that I would give it a try, I am enjoying Debian without using an Ubuntu base distribution.

[omargl]

Awesome!! Still works on Debian 12, thanks a lot!

[RickRomig]

Your video was very helpful. I recently put Debian 11 and i3 on a laptop using various sources as guides. Your step-by-step video helped me with my configuratiion files with things those sources had missed. By the way, I'm new to tiling window managers. Thanks for the video.

[GooogleGoglee]

Hi Ermanno, great video as always! Thank you!
Would be nice to have a deeper explanation on Debian repositories and how to packages from (for example) other repositories/sources or gitbub

[fredbennett]

that was brilliant thank you, I am coming over from ubuntu!

[thenextpoetician]

That was the legwork. Now the fun can begin. Lately I've been exploring the Gimp G'mic plugin. Positively addictive. :)

[varenneriocha]

Thanks a lot! I was wondering what this i3 is among the Debian users. Now I know. I like it! Will put in to my spare laptop. ;)

[Andreas-fhzf]

Hallo Ermanno,
Danke für die Anleitung Debian mit i3. Habe derzeit Debian mit i3 und compillierten i3-gaps am laufen.
LG Andreas

[ishaanbhimwal]

Sir you are the reason why I love my arch dwm install so much. All your tuts on wms are really good and actually nobody really does that on YouTube. I would like it a lot if u can do full arch install without your personal script like you've been doing recently. Love from india

Understandable, fairly short, and professional As always! Thank you Ermanno! Maybe you just changed my daily driver back to Debian! I have an i3-gaps+Debian 10 install on my laptop, but I think I had a few mistakes during the install, and it's not as minimalistic, that I wanted to be.. But you just enlighted my way, how to do it! With this in mind I can now install an ultra minimal Debian 11 to my desktop machine (it's got Fedora 35 ATM)...

[Appalling]

You sure like WM's, don't you Ermanno? ;-) Interesting video. Thank you!

[tmendoza]

excellent video! I learned many new topics

[marvicdigital]

Thanks great video as always, Debian is a very strong distro.