I'm sharing my experience because I've using Debian for 15 years and I've never had an experience like I did the other day with Debian 12 Netinsttall w. Gnome Desktop.
Most of the problems seemed to be with really slow file transfers from various Debian mirrors that lead to the install just failing. I tried about 6 different mirrors including OSU, Berkeley and U of Chicago as well as few others. I finally was able to successfully get the XFCE Netinstall version installed. However, once installed I had weird wifi connectivity problems w. 2 wifi access points that I use regularly, Everything from key exchange problems, dropping the connection, and ever not associating with an open AP. Then once I had a stable wifi connection, FIrefox was super slow loading web pages. This was a many hours affair of pure frustration and anger. I think someone else recently had a similarly frustrating experience with Debian 12. I went back to Debian 11 based version of Bunsenlabs. Downloaded, installed, fully configured and setup per my preferences and running flawlessly in less than 30 mins. I've always recommended Debian because it's always been very solid, but somewhat dated compared to other distros, easy to install w/o problems and relatively easy to use & maintain. I hope others don't have the same experience. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.
