Trying out Deepin 23 Beta

I have installed Deepin version 20 on a older laptop and i also tested out where my wife would use it daily for almost 1 year. Well it was user friendly enough that it pass with flying colours.

Deepin 23 is now in Beta, it has again a very nice wow factor. Clean UI and also a good resemblance of Windows. There is an efficient and fashion mode. I still prefer the efficient mode. I have tried the China's OpenKylin recently, this is miles ahead in the UI and usability level

The only issue i have with Deepin is the apps, I had to install them through Debian Bookworm. What i am sharing here is a quick way to get the applications rather than downloading the .deb on the Debian repo individually. So go to the terminal

sudo nano  /etc/apt/sources.list

Now add this in

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-proposed-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

save it and in the terminal

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 605C66F00D6C9793
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0E98404D386FA1D9
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 648ACFD622F3D138
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys BDE6D2B9216EC7A8

after adding do an update and if you want to install a package for example bluefish

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install bluefish

My suggestion is that do use it carefully. If you would want to do sudo apt-get upgrade, it might break the Deepin 23 Beta. So you can actually comment them out in the source file again to avoid any upgrade breaking changes.