I Finally Decided to Keep a Copy of Debian 12 in my NUC

 I Finally Decided to Keep a copy of Debian 12 in my NUC

To begin with the letters on installation is big enough and comfortable especially when I key in the Passwords. 

Pick the SWAP automatically and installation bit on the slow side.

Several reasons.

1. Debian has dropped few of my favorite applications.

One is Stacer.

2. Number two I discovered today. 

I installed Vivaldi browser and Opera  browser using gDebi graphic installer and they seem to not to work on Debian 13.

But when I reinstalled Debian 13, what it did was amazing.

It went into terminal mode and found the gDebi package suitable for its needs.

3. I had discarded old iso images but fortunately LinuxTracker still keep a copy. 

Well I keep those copies for a while.

This is why I always have two copies of Debian in my NUC. 

It is still writing the image on a USB and I have only a few USBs with me to keep them as recovery images.

4. Debian 13 does not want to live with Debian 12 in the same hard disk Conflict of Interests and repository problems may be.

Had I keep an old copy of 12 Debian in my system it would  have been different.

By the way, Debian 13 is superb and running faster than the 12 series.

GNOME OS

It looks like Gnome OS is ready for Install but it takes over the entire hard disk. 

I do not have an external disk to try how the GRUB Loader works.

I hope a guy or girl use it on an external disk and report it here under comments below.

I am trying to install Abiword on a Live Session and it did succeed after three attempt of password checking .

High priority for Security is a done thing in Linux.

I want it to be installed in an Ext4 partition, just like what I did with MX Linux.

I do not have an extra external device to try it.

I hope a guy who visit this poet make a comment under this post.

GNOME OS

GNOME OS is an experimental, immutable Linux distribution that ships the latest in-development GNOME desktop, core applications and stack. It serves as a reference for developers and testers. It is designed around the modern systemd and GNU-based userland built from the Freedesktop SDK. Initially, GNOME OS used a library and set of utilities called OSTree to deploy the root filesystem and manage updates, but later migrated to "systemd-sysupdate" which offers enhanced immutability, auto-updating, adaptability, factory reset, uniformity and other modernised security properties. GNOME OS can be loaded as a live image in Boxes, VirtualBox, QEMU and other virtualisation software, but it can also be installed on a standard x86_64 hardware. The distribution does not support traditional package management; however, additional software applications can be installed via the Flatpak utility which is supported out of the box.

MX Linux-Update

MX Linux-Update

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Aug 11, 2025

Jack Wallen

MXLinux 25 has plenty in store to please all types of users.

MXLinux 25 is on the horizon, and the developers have several tricks up their sleeves.

The first of those tricks is defaulting to Wayland for KDE's Plasma desktop. Given the stability of the Wayland/Plasma combo, this should come as no surprise. MXLinux will still include X11 sessions (to be used as a fallback), and the Xfce version has the experimental Wayland session disabled. As far as Fluxbox, it does not (and probably never will) support Wayland.

There is one big surprise, however. Previously, MXLinux shipped with both systemd and SysVinit on the same ISO (allowing the user to select which init system they want during installation). With MXLinux 25, the developers will be releasing two separate ISO images: one for systemd and one for SysVinit. What you get will depend on your choice of desktop environment.

If you go the Xfce, Fluxbox, or Plasma route, you get systemd. However, you also have the option of choosing SysVinit if you opt for Xfce or Fluxbox. This is done for maximum compatibility for each desktop environment. That's a big change for a distribution that previously claimed to be "mostly systemd-free."

MXLinux 25 is also adding basic Secure Boot support to its installer, but it's limited to standard releases that use Debian’s signed kernels and 64-bit UEFI systems.

Finally, because Debian is dropping 32-bit support, MXLinux is following suit.

You can read more details in the MXLinux 25 official announcement.