I was working on my tails OS review, headed over to distrowatch and noticed that Debian 13 aka “Trixie” was released yesterday. I wanted to do a quick checkout because it’s been over 2 years since the last major Debian release.
I did install xfce as it is my favorite desktop environment. Debian 13 now includes XFCE 4.20 vs Debian 12 included 4.18. Overall, I felt like the desktop environment was very snappy even though I was running it in a virtual machine.
I also ran some resource stats and updated my best xfce distro page to include Debian 13 as well. The overall boot time, default process, and installed disk space all went down which is awesome!
Overall the installation setup hasn’t changed much. I do love the xfce wallpaper
Here you can see XFCE Version is 4.2 and Linux Kernel is 6.12.38. While I tested XFCE Gnome is at version 48, KDE plasma is at 6.3.
The overall disk usage after fresh install, memory, and process all went down. The Debian team continues to make it resource efficient distro!
Firefox is default browser.
Couple of other notes, LibreOffice is now version 25 and GIMP has been updated to 3
This was meant to be a short initial review, but I plan to expand it into a more in-depth write-up once I’m back from vacation.