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I switched from Ubuntu 20.04 to Debian 11 at the end of 2022. If you gave me the updated laptop without telling me anything I'm not sure that I'd notice any difference.

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How do you handle chromium in Debian stable? It always lags behind significantly behind chromium/chrome releases.

The trick: Don't use Debian Stable, use Testing. Despite it's name compared to "stable", Testing is pretty stable in my experience.

- Chrome Stable - 112.0.5615.137

- Debian Bullseye (stable) - 108.0.5359.94

- Debian Bookworm (testing) - 112.0.5615.49

Most people I know who run Debian for personal desktops uses Testing, not Stable. Vice-versa for servers.

The security repo that is added by default has newer Chromium packages

https://wiki.debian.org/Chromium

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/c...

- buster 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1

- bullseye 108.0.5359.94-1~deb11u1

- bullseye (security) 112.0.5615.121-1~deb11u1

- bookworm 112.0.5615.49-2

- sid 112.0.5615.138-1

My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I get bleeding edge releases and sandboxing.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium

And by bleeding edge you mean stable.

I use Firefox ESR with Debian stable + backports, and the internet seems to work as far as I can tell (I'm not doing anything fancy with it though)

I use Firefox and I switch to Google Chrome for the very few cases when it's too difficult to make a web site work with Firefox plus all the privacy addons I added to it, maybe not every month.

I think I downloaded the installer from Google and I got this

  deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list now.

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