You know me, never satisfied standing still and to be honest, Pop!_OS has been less stable of late. Every update was bringing me more problems, so I figured it was time to try something different.
I waffled between ElementaryOS and Debian. I went back and forth a couple of times in one day and settled on Debian. Debian is the base OS for many major distributions, and is more flexible in general than Elementary.
I installed the Debian "testing" version with Gnome preconfigured. I then installed Nvidia proprietary drivers... and hacked away at odds and ends that I like to have on my systems, including fleshing out a conky.
There were a few issues and in fact two of the security repositories were broken from the start. I had to disable them in order to do anything with my system. Once disabled I was able to move on and get my system set up to a more or less stable configuration.
The reason I did NOT choose ElementaryOS was because I knew I would have to do a few backend hacks to get the UI where I wanted it it. EOS is gorgeous, no doubt, but there are some things I want to have that Elementary does not provide out of the box. I will probably hang with Debian for a week and then if the whim strikes, install Elementary.
Oh, there is ONE thing that is not Debian-specific... and that is the tracker-miners/tracker-extract processes. I don't know what triggers it exactly but they wail the tar out of my system (probably indexing everything for the first time)... I end up with a freeze and sometimes even a deadlock/hang because they consume ALL 32 GBs of my RAM AND ALL of my Swap space. That is absurd and should NEVER happen. Gnome team needs to work on that.
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