Debian Trixie fixed my dock issues

I was running EndeavourOS on my ThinkPad P50 at work, and a system update caused it to freeze at the Lenovo splash screen during boot. Nothing I tried — and believe me, I tried everything — could get it past that point.

After a lot of frustration, I decided to switch to Debian Trixie… and just like that, the problem vanished. No weird hangs, no cryptic errors — just a clean, stable boot. It honestly felt like voodoo.

I still appreciate bleeding-edge distros — I’m running EndeavourOS on my P52 at home and enjoying it — but this experience gave me a renewed respect for the stability and predictability of Debian. Especially in a work environment, reliability matters more than the latest kernel or package version.

Lesson learned: there’s a time and place for rolling releases, and a work machine isn’t always it.