Debian SidΒΆ

Debian Sid is the Unstable as they call it but if you have really new hardware nothing else might work. If your monitor is stuck at 800 x 600 or less that it can do you might need Debian 12 or Sid.

Start by installing Debian 11.4 unofficial non-free from here

I prefer the Mate Desktop Environment

DO NOT enter a Root Password during the install.

After the install is complete you need to edit the sources.list file. Press Ctrl Alt t to open a terminal

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Change the deb and deb-src lines to match the following and delete the rest.

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

Press Ctrl x then y then Enter to save and exit.

sources.list Settings

Open a terminal (Ctrl Alt t) and update the

sudo apt update

Install Sid

sudo apt full-upgrade

A couple of blue screens will popup just accept the default by pressing Enter.

Clean up

sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt clean

Reboot the PC