Debian 12 | The good, the bad and the ugly

Debian is an old linux distribution dated back from 1993. For the installation of debian, the major installation method is through a net iso.

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso

There are other live images available with different desktop environment of your liking with a modern calamares installer. The one I chose is LXQT version on the following link

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.0.0-amd64-lxqt.iso

To improve debain experience and compensate for old software packages, flatpak comes to the rescue.

To install flatpak on LXQT with a gui, we need the following code to be inserted

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sudo apt install flatpak

enable the flathub repo

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sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

install gnome-software with its flatpak plugin

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sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

Then just reboot and enable the flatpaks from within the gnome-software app.

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