By skyforbes After using Windows and Ubuntu on WSL under Windows for several years, I decided to go all in on Linux a few months ago. I bought a Framework Laptop 13 with the latest Ryzen 5 AI 340 chipset and installed Ubuntu 25.04 on it. Since this chipset is very new, Ubuntu is not yet "officially" supported, and I therefore expected some bumps on the way. But it was very smooth! A tiny hiccup on the WiFi configuration, but overall it went great.
Since Ubuntu is getting more and more snaps, and they seem to deviate more and more from "pure" Linux, I decided that I wanted to try out Debian – the "original" distro from which so many others are derived. I have never used Debian before, and all the talk about how slow they are supporting new hardware etc. has held me back.
A couple of days ago, I backed up my files and did a clean install of Debian 13 Trixie. The installer ran without any issues whatsoever, and after less than an hour I was up & running. The system could, however, not suspend due to an issue with the WiFi driver refusing to take a nap. This was probably due to Trixie using the 6.12 kernel vs. 6.14 in Ubuntu 25.04. I solved that problem by adding the backports repo and installing the 6.16 kernel from there. No problem! Other than that, I had to figure out how to add my self to the sudoers file, and how to install a few Gnome extensions and tweak it to my liking.
It has been a great experience, and I am a very happy Debian user now!