Goodbye my friend Debian
Disclaimer: this post is written in bad english, I need to practice.
What's this post about? Well, maybe it's a love letter or goodbye letter to one of my favourite distributions in the GNU/Linux world: Debian.
I've started my journey with Debian 12 in a virtual machine long time ago. It was all new, different and fresh from Windows and Mac. First of all, because I choose XFCE, but after a few days or weeks, a friend showed me his "rice" with i3 and tokyo night theme, colors, and my mind rocketed to the stars, I was absolutely mindcrashed. I talked to him and he showed me the way of the fucking tiling windows, how can I live with Windows or Mac which uses like 10% of my 4k monitor? How can I live with resizing windows, floating shit, popups, and idiotic menu launcher full of ads?
But then, I jumped into the pool with open eyes, the chaos started with Debian installed in my secondary SSD, while dual booting Windows, just in case. A few errors later, I had i3-wm. For those who are not familiar with what I say, i3-wm is a window manager, meaning it only shows windows in your screen in a tiling way, being the smarter way for me to use a big ass 4k monitor. For example, imagine you are using windows, you are in the desktop so open Firefox, Firefox opens full screen. But then you open Chrome (why would you?), then Chrome opens and use the 50% of the screen, while the other 50% is used by Firefox. But then, you open the notepad, the notepad uses the 50% of the 100% vertically height of the 50% of the Chrome window. You get it? Google Fibonacci if you need help. There was something beautiful and simplistic about having mostly a black screen and a mouse cursor. It was enough for me to create an absolute configuration chaos, and bootloops.
Today, Why I say bye to Debian?
The thing is, I've been using EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distrubution, because the installer is way comfy than the Arch installer. I know it's my fault, but I understand enough to install EndeavourOS without bloat, without anything than what I do really need. I learnt about X11 and Wayland, so Sway is my thing now. Wayland is in a more sexy state than X11, because I use resolutions highter than 1080p, with that in mind, I also use waybar and bemenu as launcher. Minimal way to use my computer, which I only use to play games and manage a few home-cloud services.
But, recently I tried Debian 13, with all the knowledge and configurations I learnt with EOS. Installed Debian 13, sway, and bemenu. I just love Debian, but for even this last version of it, I had problems with the HiDPI, scaling, fonts, and a few more. I know I could get them all to work, but... it was not the same.
I felt like I got the best thing when I tried Debian for the first time, but it's not my thing anymore since I know what I need now. But still, Debian has a big place in my heart. (Not in my SSD)