Indeed if you don't have any wish or need to use UEFI and/or vanilla Debian, going to testing/trixie is easy. It isn't Slackware Linux or so 30 years ago or updating WindowsXP to Windows7. You should indeed keep the raspberry repo, otherwise there is no way to have the rpi kernel package (linux-image-rpi-v8 for 64-bit ARM). Of course you must be able to fix problems yourself when some piece of software doesn't work as you wish, but this is also the case more or less with bookworm. RPi engineers won't come to your house and do that for you.i don't know what you guys are doing
i just installed a bare bones xfce4 on testing with no issues.
i left the raspberry repo alone.
just changed the sources.list with the usual :%s/bookworm/testing/g then shift zz to save.![:lol:]( "Laughing")
Just an example, my reason to switch to trixie is because then I have version 6.3 of package btrfs-progs, which allows a feature change in on-disk structures so that a mount of a 4TB HDD goes from 40 seconds to 2 seconds. That matters if daily reboot/powerup. Opensuse Tumbleweed had this already and otherwise I would need to wait 2 years. Opensuse Tumbleweed uses a generic ARMv8 UEFI kernel, same as vanilla Debian, so also no real support for special RPi hardware.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:43 am