So a while back I threw Ubuntu 22 LTS on an old Surface Pro 3 and gave it to my Dad.
He loves it, but he’s the type who’s been burnt by updating software in the past, so he basically refuses any whenever prompted.
Been thinking about throwing Debian with Gnome on it for a while, and wondering if it’s stable enough to just let updates happen automatically in the background?
I got no experience with Debian I basically jumped right on EndeavourOS as my main distro when I started using Linux full time.
I just migrated a bunch of servers to Bookworm.
That was the first time ever I had any issues. There was a dependency loop that kept some packages from finishing installation.
Simply running apt dist-upgrade a second time fixed it.
That being said, don’t just point your sources.list to the new version and dist-upgrade. It usually works, but for a production system, always read the guide and follow the steps that are relevant for you:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html