Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Debian 14 (Forky) bs Dabisn 13 (Trixie)

I have almost finished Editing my book Linux Essentials I decided to update my old laptop.

My workhouse is Intel NUC.
I listened to all YouTube presentations on hard to find RAM disk.
I do not have Kingston RAM disk and according one review it is the best but has become very expensive.

If one has multiple distributions in one's system, one cannot install Trixie on a system running Forky.

Trixie GRUB is older so it cannot update Forky. I have found a way to Update the GRUB.

I have both in my old laptop to make good what is not in the other.
Other distribution are for testing.

My Laptop has
2 of Debian Forky one for storage of Iso images with a big /home folder

Debian Trixie 

BlueStar Linux with the most beautiful KDE Desktop 

Ultimate Linux of Arch

BigLinux again KDE
It has redined the KDE Desktop but one can use only one at a time.

Commodore Linux 3.1
It is old but I have no hesitation of recommending it.
It has Synaptic Package Manager which I used to install AbiWord 

Trixie 
Does not have Stacer
But it has notepadqq.
It has two Xournal applications.
AbiWord is there
Bluefish is there
No Joplin 

Forky
Does not have AbiWord my favourite 
It has Stacer but no notepadqq
It has one Xournal application
No Joplin