On a sidenote I have for the first time in several years, or first time ever installed Debian 12 as my desktop environment, instead of Ubuntu and I have to say it is a much more coherent experience with less bloat, faster performance and a boot menue that Ubuntu was never able to consistently display (using EFI partition to boot from Trashcan Mac).
I don’t know why I waited this long, but I have to say Debian 12 is solid and has less idiosyncrasies than Ubuntu.
e.g.
- in Ubuntu selecting the quick menue to turn off LAN would make the option disappear temporarily, while in Debian 12 it remains
- Ubuntu had to GRUB menue and it couldn’t be shown, Debian has a boot menue (not that I would use it for much)
- With Ubuntu you have to weed out all the apps installed by snap and snap store, then convert it to gnome store, in Debian you don’t have to do that
- text in Debian 12 seems to be more bold and the window navigation seems to be simpler with fewer options that Ubuntu (which is appreciated)
PureOS unfortunately I was not able to install on the trashcan, I would if it installed.