Weekend Fun - Debian Sid install

I planned the move from pika os to debian sid. Pika OS is great but it comes with a bunch of opinionated things. Nothing bad in my opinion but more than i need on a laptop. I am running it on my gaming pc with no issues as well.

But, i have taken some time this weekend to move from pika to debian - I have an extra laptop hanging around and first made sure that I could get Niri and DMS working - quickshell had to get installed manually as some of the dms sources won’t work for me, but i did get it up and running and it feels good. Now just will make time this week to get my daily driver on it and up and running. I had run into some of these snags before and just went to fedora(everything) and installed from there. Determination to run debian has taken over however, and i just had to get it working. Hopefully this time next week, I’m completely moved over.

“Opinionated distro” — that’s a really good expression and I also appreciate general upstream distros that give you the tools to make it your own.

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pika is a really great distro. It opened my eyes to know that debian would work for me. Before - i pigeonholed it to being “that distro on a server”. I knew people were using it regularly, but i was convinced that my use case wouldn’t work. I’m very glad i was wrong. I decided to just go with it last night and reinstalled my daiy driver with debian sid last night. Currently working through some of the details in getting DMS and Niri on it.