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From: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:35:08 -0700
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Ant wrote:
> Will getting Bullseye v11 be OK?
> 
> Setup details:

The way I would investigate the hardware situation would be to dl a Deb 
live and boot it up and investigate all of the hardware relationships w/ 
the live.

Personally I would dl the torrent for the KDE live 
debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde.iso.torrent and then 
debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde.iso and check its hash & auth w/ 
SHA256SUMS.sign & SHA256SUMS and then write it to USB w/ whatever 
utility you usually use for that.  The Deb instructions are command 
based; I generally do it graphically if Win or a text interface if I'm 
doing live w/ persistence w/ mkusb.

Then I boot the live from the USB and investigate any hardware qx.

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/
from here https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

-- 
Mike Easter