2 days using zorin then switched to debian bcz some youtuber said "fuck distros its all debian so just use debian" and im loving it, i mean its my first time ever using linux and i feel i could not have made a better choice

I made the black wallpaper with photocraft, pretty good app btw

edit: i have less than 2 weeks with linux btw

im a simple guy from iran with limited and resticted internet and restricted money and everything, so when windows was abusing my laptop for no reason and i heard linux makes your hardware live for longer i decided no more windows and switched.

long story short cachyos is Super Duper hyped and everyone says to download it. but its so bad and unstable with its updates, literally everysingle one of them broke my laptop and i have a diploma in computer software and hardware and i am the most tech savy guy i know so if my skills are not enough idk who's is?

so i searched for a more stable distro and found out debian is considered the best by literally everyone next to ARCH. so i downloaded debian and the first big difference is that debian lets you to have as many WM as you want witch is super amazing cuz if one of them breaks down you can just use another one and also you can just use your desktop however you want, witch is great to have this freedom, but i use kde plasma everyday anyways. also it just easily lets you use kde and gnome apps in eatch others workflow no problem

its also so light that i downloaded it on my sisters old laptop and even that garbage works now awsome!

and i have yet to see if there is any difference between gaming on debian and cachyos other than that it toke me 1 week to install steam on debian witch was also true for cachyos since i first tried hypraland (worst mistake ever)

now these are the things i learned thus far

ricing is BS.

while downloading linux i was obsessed with ricing and making my own desktop. but after using linux for 1 month or 2 now io can say it honestly base kde or cosmos or gnome all look good enough for me and anything more than that is just a waste if time so dont even think a out ricing.

second is that arch isnt that difference from debian for a noobie like me other than the fact that its gonna break down more and worse

third: please dont accidentaly format your external drives 😭 that shet toke me so long to recover i nearly lost my childhood photos and all my documents and so much more that im not sure if i even got them back or not

forth: instead of watching youtube go and learn how to use your distro cuz youtubers just make you feel like a imbecile.

anyways thx for all of you that created debian and kde plasma and gnome and linux and firefox and all of you'll honestly you guys are the real heros.

Debian has released kernel package 6.12.113-1 for Debian 13 (Trixie), including a patch for the PwnEscape vulnerability.

To check your running kernel version:

uname -r

After updating, verify that the patched kernel is installed and reboot if required.

Help! I have a Lenovo Thinkpad E14 Gen 2 (CPU: Intel i7-1165G7) with 32 GB of ram instead of the 16 GB it came with. The laptop came with Windows 11 but in the past few days I installed Debian 13.7 GNOME on it because I hate Windows.

After I booted up into Debian for the first time all of GNOME's animations were laggy and Firefox was very slow. I did not expect this because on some other older computers I have Debian ran faster than Windows. The boot times were also slower than Windows but not by much. In fact I would say than it is barely usable because of the lag.

The strange part is that this morning I turned on my laptop and everything was smooth and not lagging. I think it took less than 15 seconds to boot too.

Could someone please explain why this is happening and provide a solution. Also if you have any questions about the situation feel free to ask.

i wanna install debian on my 2011 computer and make programs on it for fun

i wanna install it on a computer with an intel pentium e6500, 6gb of ram and an intel g41 express chipset igpu. i'm planning on installing the latest version of debian, with xfce and openbox

more specifically i wanna dual boot, windows 7 on the dying C drive (500 gb) and debian on the D drive (160 gb)

is there anything i should be doing differently or is this fine?

any specific tutorials i should read/watch before trying?

Hey everyone! I just got Debian Trixie with KDE Plasma on my Dell Latitude 7280 (coming from Ubuntu) and I just love it so much. I have a small issue though: if you look close, there is a line on the top left corner of the screen that seems to be a window. It disappears when I fullscreen another app and I've rebooted many times but it wouldn't go. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!

hello, i tried distro hopping from ubuntu to debian. after the initial installation (?) my system is just stuck on this screen. i also tried launching recovery mode but that did basically nothing to fix this. a little help would be appreciated! :)

Hello! I am gonna get a laptop that uses a panther lake processor and needs a kernel above 6.19
I currently use debian trixie LTS, and I am wondering if it would be advisable/possible to use backports until forky comes out (at which point I'd just swith to forky lts.)
All I need is the kernel, and I know how to make the .pref file to filter out everything except the kernel but I don't know if my eventual migration would be safe to do

I have a Minisforum NAB9 (2 RJ45 and WiFi) and loaded Debian 13 (trixie) with Cinnamon yesterday to get started building a docker host.

Everything was going fine and it found the 2 wired NIC and the WiFi.

Using the Settings > Network app, it shows the 2 wired devices (enp2s0 & enp3s0) and each has a different MAC address. The WiFi is listed and shows the Visible Networks.

But it seemed like it was treating the 2 wired connections as 1. If I changed the name of the 1st, the 2nd had the same name. If I used DHCP on the 1st, the 2nd had DHCP even though I wanted it "Manual".

The plan was to have NIC 1 (enp2s0) in the native LAN using DHCP and NIC 2 (enp3s0) in a private LAN (for CCTV with no access to the Internet) using a fixed IP address, no DNS and no router.

Yesterday, despite some of the weirdness with the Setup > Network app, it was all working as I expected. NIC 1 had full access to the Internet and NIC 2 could ping a device on the private LAN.

Today, there was a Debian update alert and I let it update. Now there is zero network access on either NIC. Nothing.

NIC 1 still gets a DHCP assigned address, but the "nmcli device show" displays that there is no IP4.GATEWAY and no IP4.DNS[1] or [2], those fields are --.

And enp3s0 had no IP4.?? details listed with nmcli. With the RJ45 unplugged the flag "GENERAL.STATE:" is "20 (disconnected) and with it plugged in, it is "30 (disconnected). In the Settings > Network,

If I set NIC 1 to "Manual", I can plug in all the details, and it starts working fine and nmcli shows all the correct details. But, DHCP doesn't work. It gets 1/2 the details and none of the DNS or GW.

The enp3s0 had no connection. The "enp3s0" was there, but nothing under it. I clicked the + to add a new profile and selected the MAC address of enp3s0 and filled in the IP address. But it won't ping any of the devices it would ping yesterday.

I may have FUBARed something yesterday. How can I get networking sorted (short of reinstalling from scratch)?

FWIW: I use CentOS / Redhat and now using Rocky. Maybe that should help, but usually, I'm a CLI kind of admin, and the Setting GUI seem to get in the way. I went to Debian because it was recommended for Frigate and Home Assistant.

im thinking bout reinstalling my whole os just to put xfce on it, is it worth it? im a blender animator and i think the extra free ram(around 2gb) will be quite usefull while rendering heavier scenes

Saludos cordiales!
Ahora mismo tengo una configuración que me encanta, tengo el sistema un poco desordenado con programas que probé pero no me convencieron, o parte de experimentos ... pero hay programas y carpetas en .config que me gustaría conservar para una instalación limpia.
¿que me aconsejáis? dselect? git? algún script?

Having some visual issues with Dash to Panel ver. 74.

1. The left side of the panel is not showing the web window as on the right side. I want the left side of the panel also show the window.

2. when running fullscreen windows, they only reaches the top edge of the panel, not the bottom of the screen, so I have to adjust the size manually. How to make the window reach the bottom of the screen, behind the panel? Automatically that is, not resizing manually as i do now.

Any advice highly appreciated!

Does a Debian blend install all the software under all its metapackages? If so, that sounds extremely wasteful, since the blends have thousands of packages.

Assuming no, what does a blend actually do? Does it make some metapackages more accessible somehow? If so, that's sounds awesome.

Afaik the documentation never answers this basic question.

I've managed to get pcsc_scan to work. Unfortunately it's output is in Klingon and there is no man page.

I'm a bit of a retard. I can't find a graphical reader, writer in synaptic. What search term do I use to get it.

Hello! Anyone knows why my cursor might not see options to click near the toolbar? so my toolbar is at the bottom of the screen and when something is in that area on the website it might not allow me to click it. Thanks

I made this super simple and clean Debian wallpaper and wanted to share if anyone needs it. I'll post the PSD too so you can edits colors.

Note: this took like 15 mins to make :)

Download the PSD file.

A new rule has been enacted regarding low quality posts. Anything deemed to be low quality will be removed. This includes posts joking about lesbians.

Olá amigos, tudo certo?

Sou novo na comunidade do Debian e há algum tempo estou querendo testar o sistema para Desktop como meu SO principal para uso diário (estou vindo do Arch).

Já usei Debian anteriormente em servidores.

Tentei fazer a instalação na minha máquina mas sempre que tento deixar ele preparado para meu uso acabo tendo problemas com drivers de vídeo (NVIDIA) no qual meu desempenho fica péssimo em jogos.

Setup:

Ryzen 5 3600

16GB RAM

RTX 2060 6GB

No Arch e Fedora nunca tive problemas, mas é só tentar ir para o Debian que eu travo e nunca consigo deixar ele bom o suficiente... É um problema de conhecimento, creio eu.

Poderiam me ajudar a como instalar os drivers mais atuais da NVIDIA da forma correta e otimizar o Debian para jogos e deixa-lo pronto para uso diario?

Não gostaria de ter que ir para alternativas como PikaOS que já vem tudo pronto, queria justamente o Debian para aprender com o processo.

maybe we all have ocd

Been struggling with this for a few months now. Despite backport updates, latest firefox-esr, still doens't fix it. Notes:

1) Color banding appears and disappears regularly.

2) It moves. Sometimes it's in thirds, as seen in the screenshot. Sometimes it's in fourths. But usually vertical.

3) Rarely ever see square blotches or horizontal banding.

System is perfectly fine under intensive games and W11 dual boot.

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Hardware:

3600x

16GB RAM

6950xt

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1149499

I have this problem and saw other people were having it too. The bandaid is to boot into the older kernel. Another workaround is the use of `modprobe.blacklist=hid_asus` mentioned in the bug.

I think you can technically figure out how to patch that specific fix into your kernel, but I already know that can be a pain.

Anyway I guess it will be shipped in some future update, hopefully soon. Just posting here because I don't think everyone else also is following the bug

Hey Team,

I just completed a fresh install on a refurbished Lenovo tiny desktop, i7 gen 8, intel UHD graphic.

im booting into TTY mode only, any suggestions ? is this a graphics issue, I can see watchdog will not close upon reboot hinting to a kernel error.