My observations on Bookworm

[kc1di]

I'm sure debian will get these thing fixed eventually, But this has been my experience with it.
1. if you install from the live DVD/usb - you get an incomplete /etc/apt/sources. list file which makes it impossible to update the system.
2. I installed Cinnamon DE the first time and found that it would not allow me to use Vivaldi Browser (my preferred browser) no matter how I installed it.
3. Ram usage was high. About 1.5 x higher than Mint and 2x higher than MX.
4. Battery life is substantially less on Laptop even after installing and configuring TLP.
Those are the reason I've returned to Mint for now.

 

[Terminal Velocity]

I'm going to use the 11 until EOL, I hope they will have it fixed till then

 

[spacebanana]

I don't recommend installing Debian with the live image because, the last time I did that, it installed more packages than I wanted. It just installs more bloat than with the regular installer

RAM usage being high is weird. On my Debian testing machine, I get around 600-700MB of RAM usage on boot