How To Easily Install Debian Unstable

[@TheRob2D]

Now if you're really feeling ballsy you can try installing it with KDE. Everyday will be like Russian Roulette for your desktop.

[@arghya_333]

I recall someone mention on a reddit thread that Fedora got the latest KDE before Arch(leading to a joke of Fedora surpassing Arch in release speeds). A Fedora dev later commented that Fedora isn't rolling, KDE is.

[@weirddan455]

To be fair, they've just recently merged KDE 6 into Unstable (and I think even into Testing now as well) so expect some update pains as they get all the various KDE packages updated and tested. I'm sticking with KDE 5 on Stable for now.

[@JoshOsRocks]

​@@weirddan455It will come and it when It does, it will be flawless.

[@EmilioBernardinoKennKierza]

Plot twist; I install it in btrfs with subvolumes and snapshots support so I can always rollback to the previous snapshots when things break down.

[@GrindAlchemyTech]

😅😅

[@ordinarryalien]

Debian Sid (minimal ISO) is the best!

[@folksurvival]

No.

[@ordinarryalien]

@@folksurvival Y-Yes. 🥺

[@MuhammadSalman7236]

Debian wiki recommends downloading the normal iso and then changing the repo to unstable after installation.

[@TheRob2D]

@@MuhammadSalman7236 This doesn't work great in practice though. I would always do a fresh install for Testing/Sid.

[@MuhammadSalman7236]

@@TheRob2D yeah I don't know what's the benefit of doing a stable install first just to change it to unstable later. No idea why it's the recommended method.

[@herrgruen3757]

Thank you for the video. I have been using Debian (stable) myself for about 20 years. I would be very happy about a sequel in which you install and configure a tiling window manager (Spectrwm perhaps?) on it.

[@apollodeveloper6366]

Debian looks good, I'll try it anytime

[@EricNantel]

Thank you DT

[@LilaHikes]

Good job with the thumbnail. 1000% better than the last one. Thanks for the Debian content.

[@cevmantius]

Dude i love debian

[@manfrommars3486]

I've been using Debian testing for a long time, installing from minimal ISO, modifying sources to switch to testing (something worth mentioning, using "testing" as distro release instead of its codename such as "trixie" in sources.list) and then building from the ground up with i3wm. I've gotta say, never had an issue whatsoever except a few applications that were a little outdated. I find testing definiteIy a good choice for home, not being an expert by any mean (so I would not dare with sid...). I just went through quite a lot of RTFM and nice tutorials like yours.

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

I used testing about 2-3 years ago and I had some issues. Some updates were corrupted and I wouldn't be able to boot in. I managed to fix that, but testing is not a beginner friendly choice.

[@milohoffman274]

Running unstable now on my second system. It has Plasma 6.2 and Hyprland in it now and they are running great. 2025 will be a great time to switch back to Debian stable.

[@GiorgioBeltrammi]

Very, very useful. Thanks a lot 🙂

[@quarteratom]

Rolling release distributions are stu,pid. They break. You should use Debian Stable with Kde Plasma.

[@DeveshAdhikar]

as a user from past 7 years, for me, debian is a kind of distro that I like to put on my grandma's pc for me, arch and debian are the absolute chad distros and now with the arch install coming in, these two distros are the absolute go to even for a begginner edit- you can like by double tapping on touch devices

[@GhostCoder83]

Hey DT, how's your AI integration progress in your linux workflow?

[@bertmarien6926]

When the boot gets stuck, just hit control-d. It happens quite often nowadays. Must be a bug somewhere.

[@oldcmputer]

I wish you would of shown us where you specifically downloaded the ISO from. As someone who has used Debian since 2006, their website is awful to navigate. It still takes me time to find the minimal install ISO for their daily release of testing. Where did you grab the "mini ISO" that lets you select stable, testing or unstable?

[@sachasjt7387]

Need this!

[@XYZ-xm1ew]

Three is the link in discribtion.

[@Joe3D]

13:10 You should try now with stable to see if boots and confirm it's a sid bug.

[@robertmaxa6631]

What's the difference between "unstable", and "testing"?

[@spreadneck2063]

I've ran through the expert install 3 times now and no option to use sid is showing up

[@jesse7631]

You have to download the 70 MB mini.iso, not their netinst.iso (which is still over 600 MB). He has a link to the mini.iso in his show notes.

[@andychen7016]

Looks like I need to try this on my secondary PC.

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Great video nice to do something different

[@jacobwerner8533]

usually i use the netinst iso (for stable), although with my belkin wifi usb the internet didnt work without having to transfer .deb files from my phone to it and install with dpkg -i. As an experiment i've upgraded slax(debian) in kvm to "testing". I think next time i have to do another debian install i'd use the dvd iso or install those .deb files in tty2 until it recognizes my wifi. It was a major pain to install everything from the core install.

[@jesse7631]

If you keep Debian desktop environment selected along with your DE of choice, I believe you will get all the necessary files (like the display / login manager)

[@sluuny]

Thanks a lot !

[@whywhyzeemark]

Just installed with the MINI.ISO on a new VM as per your guide using Proxmox but I chose KDE. It defaulted to the usual SDDM login screen and Plasma under Wayland. It seems heavy on Memory (about 1.5 to 2 Gigs). But I got what I wanted... A preview of KDE Plasma 6.x and Wayland. Debian 12 with KDE Plasma 5.x is my daily driver on baremetal. So now to see if I can get XRDP running.

[@sachasjt7387]

I feel like it's more difficult to find the iso you want than to install it. Would you please show how to navigate the Debian website to find the mini iso?

[@RobertFales-r5w]

what version of xfce is installed 4.18, 4.19 or 4.20?

[@fabricio4794]

Good,arch obssesion replaced by Debian obssession..

[@CaribouDataScience]

Speaking of unstable here's ......DT😊

[@hurricanepr7102]

What VM you are using?

[@xgui4-studios]

i use fedora btw

[@darkelfdiva4681]

Debian 12 or testing will not install on my computer always comes up with no suitable kernel found

[@XYZ-xm1ew]

Instslll your Debian in expert mode.You will be able to chose the existing Kernel from the internet then.

[@darkelfdiva4681]

@@XYZ-xm1ew did try it in expert did not work i will youtube incase i did something worng. thankyou for replying

[@darkelfdiva4681]

@@XYZ-xm1ew was doing it in expert mode when it comes to install base system no suitable kernel fond and dose not bring up a list of them. Dont know if it has anything thing to do with my computer is not a potateo i have no idea cant seem to find info on it.

[@CrustyAbsconder]

I would be curious as to how to run Xfce in Wayland

[@organess0n]

I prefer using testing, which can "downgrade" when it becomes stable

[@redname]

At last..., thanks. I couldnt instalo wine on debian sid. If You get it please let me know. It seems wine remove sid support.

[@AndrewErwin73]

Debian is great for stable distros... but to be honest, I think Fedora has surpsased Debian a bit! I am still an Arch user (btw), but when I do my hopping, I usually end up in either Debian or Fedora before I go back to Arch.

[@esra_erimez]

I've been a Kubuntu user since I was 7, I have been interested in switching to Debian, but I lose interest when I struggle with the apps I need

[@manadecide]

Have you tried looking for your apps on flatpak?

[@Your_Degenerate]

I enjoy XFCE but wish the mouse settings had not just acceleration but speed as well. The acceleration can be disabled but then you're stuck with one speed unless your mouse can switch dpi. Even then it's a bit frustrating.

[@hrmf32]

Can make a video configure xfce look nice.

[@marsdrums6298]

You need to update Arco. I've got 6.12.4 on mine. I'm running Arch (BTW... Always wanted to say that here) 😁

[@patpopov]

13:25 When that happens you can just hit 'enter'.

[@Eyuphuro]

Hey DT, hope you see this comment. Please do a "Arch Like" install of Debian using mmdebstrap, make your root fs brtrfs.

[@hiYouareaclown]

Don't using cinnamon DE is a great mistake

[@penguin2137]

that's only your opinion. mine is that Cinnamon is developed mainly with Mint in mind

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

@@penguin2137 That doesn't mean it can't be used on other distros. I use Fedora Cinnamon edition and it works well.

[@noxcorvus]

lol that ISO is 70 MB

[@xperience-evolution]

I am a normal pc user and tried many Distros and didn't have any problems installing the well know ones. But Debian failed every time.

[@darthkielbasa]

Anyone who provides a download link for a Debian ISO should be banned. Navigating the archaic Debian website is a rite of passage and should not be denied to the new user or the forgetful. I love you DT

[@xamp_exclammark]

Idk im 19 but i installed debian one time didnt find the website all that hard to get through

[@penguin2137]

totally agree. there was one time, i think i tried installing non-free version of Bullseye... and i couldn't find it on a download page. it took me over 15 min navigating until i got fed up and duckduckgo'd (or duckduckwent?) the direct non-free subpage. thank gawd they include non-free in their default ISO nowadays, i wouldn't want to go through this again if i wanted to install Debian

[@quarteratom]

"Experts" install Debian Stable. Experts don't use st,upid things like rolling-release. If you want the most up-to-date version of a program, just install that from a different source, like Snap. With Snaps, or other sources, you can easily have the fancy most up-to-date versions of your favourite programs with good stable operating systems as well. There's no reason to run the most up-to-date unstable version of EVERY program, especially not operating-system programs, except for testing. Noone should use operating systems that just break. Xfce is beautiful, you are ug,ly. Gnome is ug,ly.

[@matyasmarkkovacs8336]

Everything but not Snaps. Snaps are garbage. Flatpak is garbage too but it's still better. And honestly vanilla XFce is quite ugly. It looks like something from the late 90s.

[@RHTORAS]

I CAN DO THE SAME WITH.... well Devuan which is better...

[@aurkom]

Why is it better?

[@RHTORAS]

@@aurkom #2 former debian leader said it not just me. It better enigneered and has not systemD.

[@marco31]

​@@RHTORAS No SystemD means it's worse.

[@RHTORAS]

@@marco31 no it means only real users can use it... freedom init.

[@xamp_exclammark]

No systemD is neither better nor worse than systemD. I really liked using artix for a whole 2 months

[@HksjJkdkd]

Why dont just download regulary and change the suite in apt to unstable. 100000x easier.

[@TheGroundScore]

dt you seem burnt out on the whole linux content lately..

[@titadelagarza]

"easily" 😄

[@GrindAlchemyTech]

🧙‍♂️😂🕳👽💗 #ExperienceLearnGrow

[@kaslmineer7999]

"6 minutes ago", "51 views","9 likes"

[@act.13.41]

Thanks DT