Debian 12 Review: Why It's the Best Release So Far

Debian 12 (codenamed "Bookworm") is a FANTASTIC release of an awesome Linux distribution, and this is a release that fans of the popular desktop distro are sure to love. In this video, Jay goes over all the reasons why he feels that this is the best Debian release ever. This review will include a look at the installation process, performance, stability, and a surprising change. And speaking of "surprising", there's a surprise twist at the end of the review that will be sure to shock long-time fans of the channel. Check it out!

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*⏰ TIME CODES*
00:00 - Pre-intro
00:27 - Actual intro
02:04 - Taking our first look at the final release of Debian 12 "Bookworm"
04:27 - How Debian differs from other distributions of Linux
05:55 - Debian 12 features all the popular desktop environments
06:23 - Performance and Reliability
08:36 - Debian 12 provides an AWESOME desktop experience!
09:33 - Some thoughts on the installation process (net install)
11:22 - What are the downsides of Debian 12?
16:50 - Debian is drama-free (and why that's a good thing)
18:50 - Closing Thoughts on Debian 12

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[mzs]

After almost 10years of use, my company is moving the servers and employee laptops to Debian! I played a role in this change, so glad I was part. :)

[merlingt]

Debian is the underpinning of all my servers, containers and services. Proxmox, TrueNAS Scale, you name it, Debian is behind it.

[rhb.digital]

used debian since version 3...all I can say.. it just works !! insanely stable like you wouldnt believe

[Darkk]

No issues with upgrading from Debian 11 to 12 with KDE. Even my AMD video drivers worked just fine without issues. Usually it messes up my three monitor settings after each upgrade but not this time which is a welcome surprise. Great work Debian folks!!

[joelviolinpiano]

I had tried debian several years ago and yes I had issues with getting the drivers installed. I'm testing an install of debian 12 in boxes and wow its so easy now. They really improved it. Very cool!

[ConsoleCombat]

Debian 12 was the first distribution that worked with the hardware on my 5, 1 Mac Pro hardware out of the box. It’s fantastic.

[markjones]

There is nothing else quite like Debian. It's so nice to be able to install anything from the repositories and never be surprised, disappointed, and angry over bugs in the software that you install. I used Linux Mint for probably the last 5 years and I got annoyed with enough bugs that I got fed up and installed Debian 11 about 6 months ago. This new release feels very new but also very reliable with no surprises. I might have to install in a VM just to see if they finally have BTRFS installation that works with Timeshift without manual intervention. Today is a great great day I'm so so happy! Congratulations to everyone involved in the making of this amazing operating system and all of the fantastic packages that are included. The quality of work that goes into every Debian release is just absolutely amazing. I feel so sorry for all of the Windows users out there that don't know any better.

[BWGPEI]

A company I used to work with considered Debian "industrial quality" - another bit of praise. It's been a while, so I also will install on hardware just for the fun of it. Thanks!

[ArniesTech]

What I never understood: what EXACTLY makes older Software so unbearable to use? Everybody complains about older software. But why? Does anybody compete in a software competition? If a certain version runs fine and gets the job done, how is it possible that it suddenly becomes unuseable? 🤔🤔🤔

[arthurpizza]

I installed it on my laptop last week and it's been amazing. Gonna try to get on my work computer this week.

[familyshare]

Great video. Been using Debian, now 12.5, on all servers at a bank. Considering running Debian 12.6 as my dev desktop.

[davethetaswegian]

Very interested to see how this plays out for Linux Mint, they have been suggesting that LMDE is their future and this now gives them a very modern base to build on.

[UserStoryCoach]

Inspired by this, and wanting to get away from corporate backed distros, I switched to Debian Sid. Really similar to Ubuntu non LTS but pure Gnome and no Snap packages. Loving it so far. Debian was my first distro so feels like coming home.

[Dygear]

As Ubuntu started pushing snap, I've moved all of my servers to Debian for the past two iterations. Did the upgrade to Bookworm today (this morning around 3am) and it was painless.

[KMcKaig]

I have also switched all of my machines to Debian, having migrated over from Arch and other Arch-based distros I've been using these past few years, and I decided on this largely because of the improved hardware support. The Plasma implementation is definitely excellent out of the box, and the ability to source applications through Flatpak removed any reservations I had about switching.

[KM-svdh]

Thank you Jay, for putting light on Debian, I feel that OpenSUSE (with their all-in-one Yast thing) and Debian are among the most underrated and underestimated distros in the linux world, and they need recognition especially from important figures like you.

Many just know the stable Debian Branche (currently Bookworm), which aims for stability (stable as unchanging), which is why it is known for having outdated packages.
What many dont know, however, is the testing and unstable branches, especially the testing branch (soon to be Trixie). It is very reliable while using moderately up-to-date packages.

Please review the testing branche a month or so from now (or whenever you get to do so) and compare it with the stable branch.

Excuse my language, English is not my first tongue.

[russellbrooks]

Cool. I keep Debian Sid updated regularly on a couple of machines, so I've pretty much been using Debian 12 for almost 2 years. I guess now I'll be starting to test Debian 13 Trixie.

[aletheia]

YES! Debian 12 is the best Linux system ever for me. It's been 2 weeks now since I've installed it in my second internal disk in my recent PC and since then I boot rarely on my first disk with Windows 10. I'm glad I've discovered your video tonight because during the installation, I have not unchecked the default desktop Gnome and I've checked the Cinnamon desktop. So I have two desktop. I'm saying that cause you've mentioned in your video that we can choose more than one desktop during the installation and I've seen other videos where people unchecked the default Gnome and then just installed the desktop of their choice. I used to be a Linux Mint fan since 2012 but more and more it's Debian my number one. What a stable and solid distro. Thanks for your review.

[LtSich]

Welcome to the Debian community :)
I was using the "non-free" iso for a long time now, this iso included all drivers you need... It's just that it was not the "official" one, but available on debian server...
And for daily usage on your computer, you can stay with testing, it's very reliable.. But for server it's only stable ofc...

[MarkusHobelsberger]

I did the apt full-upgrade yesterday after switching all sources to bookworm on my Debian machine and was half-expecting something to go wrong by the inplace upgrade (since I'm using an nvidia gpu and raid0 on that machine), but it ran through without any error in less than one hour. Very impressive. You might almost call this a semi-rolling release with the ease of updating.

Just make sure to add non-free-firmware in addition to non-free. They added that as a new package pool.