On 29 Jan 2024 19:54 -0800, from cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs): > Today I took a thorough backup of my laptop and dove in, using the > instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade as a guide.
Did you actually follow _that_ page, or did you read and follow the _release notes_ as it says near the top of that page? As a rule the release notes for a release should be considered the authoritative truth about upgrading to any given release from the immediately preceding release. (Skipping releases is not supported and strongly discouraged.) There are also meaningful differences in system setup between 11 and 12, not least non-free-firmware (which, were it just that, would be easy enough to add after the fact). A plain Debian release upgrade should not switch your desktop environment on its own, and last I looked Xfce wasn't yet compatible with Wayland, so although I haven't looked in detail, it seems likely that your issues are related to something which you did or did not do during the upgrade process. Do you have a "script" transcript of the upgrade session (as the release notes also strongly recommend [1] in case there are problems)? [1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#record-session -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
