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It took me a while before making the jump with the home laptop. I had tried several times since 2004 but always had some issues with WiFi or graphics. With Debian 12 I heard good stuff so when Debian 13 was released I installed it and no issues whatsoever.
But I will say some of the forums I visited back in the days where not as friendly as now. RTFM was a common thing you got thorn in the face when you had issues - and the manual did not always work.