I can’t imagine any messenger is private if you invite random people into a group chat 🤦‍♂️

Firstly - buy laptops that are more linux compatible

This is the thing: The laptop is from Starlabs, supposedly made for Linux…

In what way? I haven’t upgraded between major releases on Debian before.

Intel Arc integrated graphics.

Are you using the liquorix kernel?

I can only see one downvote and four upvotes from here - I think you’re good!

I had problems with waking from sleep/hibernate, audio issues (total dropouts as well as distortion in screen-recording apps), choppy video playback and refusal to enter fullscreen, wonky cursor scaling, apps not working as expected or not running at all. I’ve managed to fix most of these or find temporary workarounds (grateful for flatpaks for once!) or alternative applications. But the experience was not fun, particularly as there was only a 2 week return window for the laptop and I needed to be sure the problems weren’t hardware design/choice related. And I’m finding it 50/50 whether an app actually works when I install it from the repo. There’s a lot less documentation for manually installing things as well and DNF is slow compared to apt…

I don’t want to say for certain that Fedora as a distro is to blame but I suspect that it is. I miss my Debian days.

What makes Debian 12 a painful distro to upgrade?