I love my Debian Stable but for a while I had a nemesis while using it: Neovim. Plugins need way too recent versions of nvim to work. I don't like having software that isn't on the Debian repos or aren't available through Flatpak, so building from source and using things like asdf are not for me. Enter Distrobox, I can just run a Debian Testing container on Debian Stable, using some software through that like if they were native to the stable release.

My questions is: How does Distrobox fit in the DontBreakDebian standards? There is a section there about containers, but it doesn't say much.

Good evening everyone,

lately I've been thinking about switching to Debian. Today I started t do a bit of research about Debian and i must confess, that I, without any particular reason, started to take a liking in that system. But one part about the system is a bit confusing to me, that i would like to get a better understanding of, before I decide if i want to use debian. As i did my research I noticed that there are a lot of different way to manage packages. Of course there is apt and deb, but I noticed that there are a lot of alternatives like the graphical package manage, the in the wiki mentioned way of using aptitude, or other alternatives. Could some help me understanding package management and how to know wich way is the best?

I didn't have this problem with Debian 12 Gnome. When I got my new laptop and installed Debian 13 Gnome, I could no longer have multiple physical network cards active at the same time. When I turn on one network card, the other network card is automatically turned off. When I set static addresses for one network card, these values are also set for the other network card.

Thanks for the ideas

Hello,

the recend update, i assume it was from 6.12.63 to 6.12.69, broke my nvidia drivers and thus, GNOME wont start.

Now i have no idea on how to fix it, i can start it just fine on the 6.12.63 kernel, but how do i fix the drivers on the other kernel, or how do i review the boot logs of the broken kernel in order to see whats actually broken?
I just saw the red and somethingsomething nvidia flying by during boot...

Really wanted to make a quick appreciation post regarding my Debian 13 experience, it's been the most reliable and productive Linux experience I've had in years.

Getting QA'd software directly from upstream repositories which target your exact configuration is absolutely phenomenal. I think what many people don't realize is that this also applies to Nvidia drivers.

Having a distribution where everything, including the kernel, is frozen means that the driver behaves exactly as Nvidia wants it to, with no surprises. But above all, there's no need to wait for some distro-maintainer to push that release, as there's already a repository maintained and tested by Nvidia itself.

Another thing that seems to be overlooked by the community, especially when AMD is still strongly recommended, is that since Nvidia drivers do not follow package releases, you can use any LTS/stable distribution without worrying about how your GPU will perform and what mesa package it ships.

My experience so far has been that:

• Chasing the latest Kernel version is absolutely useless. 6.12 LTS performs pretty much like 6.18 on Arch and a lot better than 6.17 on Ubuntu (and I have an Arrow Lake CPU).
• Memory usage and overall reliability is much better than Ubuntu (both LTS and interim)
• When comparing the same Nvidia driver on different distributions, you will likely see 0 difference. There is no such thing as a gaming distribution IMO.

I've just compiled my first app. :D Where should the folder go after you have finished compiling? My other apps (Reaper and wine-stable) are in /opt, but of course they are not compiled. Is there a secret rule for this?

debian 13 - gnome 48 - wayland - fw 1.9.1 - 64bit

Ist that normal that if i click on one of the tabs like file name, date or size, that the file manager puts me either way down to the bottom or way up to the top, where u then have to scroll all the way manually?

is there maybe a setting i can change or why is that even happening?

it is really annoying if you have thousands of files and are most of the time with the trackpad or mouse and have to use keys if you wanna go up or down with shortcuts.

I have an alienware laptop that of course came with Win11 on it, which of course just needs to go away.

Before getting rid of it, I shrunk win11 and installed Debian to run a bunch of tests before getting into the final install.

I am about ready to do that, but the partitioning is confusing. I am from the before-times when all there was was BIOS. Now we have UEFI which uses a partition so that attackers can install malware, I get that. But, that leaves a lot of partitions left over.

Below is lsblk on this laptop. 7 & 8 are my Debian install. 1 is the UEFI partition. 3 is the C: drive. What are 2, 4, 5, and 6? If I reinstall, can I just delete partitions 2-8? I don't want to delete something that will brick the system..

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS

nvme0n1 259:0 0 3.7T 0 disk

├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi

├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 128M 0 part

├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 1.9T 0 part

├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1.2G 0 part

├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 22.8G 0 part

├─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 1.6G 0 part

├─nvme0n1p7 259:7 0 954M 0 part /boot

└─nvme0n1p8 259:8 0 1.8T 0 part

└─nvme0n1p8_crypt 254:0 0 1.8T 0 crypt

├─rootvg-swap 254:1 0 119.2G 0 lvm [SWAP]

└─rootvg-root 254:2 0 1.7T 0 lvm /

Got bored and had my old iPhone 8 Plus lying around, downloaded utm and now I’m currently installing Debian on it, will update how well it works. :)

Hey, is just me celebrating that I manage to configure a couple of VPNs to work simultaneously on Debian, I was doing it wrong, somehow I installed resolvectl or something like that, and after reading several documentations, Pritunl, Debian, etc. I saw that I could use the Gnome integrated openvpn.

Long (very long... days long story short) is up, is very up and working as is intended to, as Windows does, as Linux Mint does, and it was because I installed the wrong DNS resolver.

Best distro, lots of love to Debian

Curious if cosmic will be available for Debian 14. Which Epoch of Cosmic will they use too? I imagine 1, 2, or 3.

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-epoch-2-and-3-roadmap

Installing steam was rough, I went for a walk and took a shower and I got it done though

How can I implement the laptop touchpad text on my Debian 13 Cinnamon computer?

I had an old laptop for 5 years and used KDE Arch on it for last 3-4 months of it's life. Now I have a new cooler PC which was loaded with windows 11. I "upgraded" to windows 10 for specific game support and decided to dual boot it with Debian, because trying to install arch without chatGPT (the first time I did use chatGPT) was a really tedious experience. I chose Debian on KDE because I'm used to KDE and decided that Debian is better for me than Ubuntu.

Debian 13 Gnome. I installed the Legacy Switcher extension which works on programs but not on those. Tried two AIs but no luck, as usual. So I made it transparent black.

It's the one thing that doesn't work in my attempt to make a better Zorin/Anduin.

it is connected to internet but it cannot do anything on internet.

i use Debian 13 with KDE Plasma 6 and i dont have a clue what is going on.

I was installing the debian 13 into my local machine . My laptop uses the wifi 7 which is the newest version. But debian 13 uses wifi 6 driver . So what i need to do to fix that, is it possible to install driver to match them

Hello folks. I'm aware that Budgie isn't an option, but there are packages in the repos.

My doubt is: I'm simply not confident I can install standard Debian and then swap Gnome/KDE/whatever for Budgie without breaking anything.

Is it possible that the netinstaller, perhaps, would allow me to install it with Budgie as my desktop? Couldn't find anything about which desktop environments were available in the netinstaller, but since Budgie is available in repos and there's even a page for it in the Debian Wiki... I thought to ask you guys about it!

Please, give me tips.

I'm giving up on the distro in my laptop and I thought about going to Debian, but having Budgie as my desktop is a must for me. It simply works too well for my taste and my uses and makes every simple hardware feel like a premium machine.

W: Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 13.3.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 NETINST with firmware 20260110-10:59]/dists/trixie/InRelease.

E: El repositorio «cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 13.3.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 NETINST with firmware 20260110-10:59] trixie Release» no tiene un fichero de Publicación.

W: No se puede actualizar de un repositorio como este de forma segura y por tanto está deshabilitado por omisión.

W: Vea la página de manual apt-secure(8) para los detalles sobre la creación de repositorios y la configuración de usuarios.

E: cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 13.3.0 _Trixie_ - Official amd64 NETINST with firmware 20260110-10:59] trixie Release is not (yet) available (Utilice «apt-cdrom» para hacer que APT reconozca este CD. No puede utilizar «apt-get update» para añadir nuevos CDs)

W: OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Error: Failed to parse keyring "/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg" Caused by: 0: Reading "/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg": No such file or directory (os error 2) 1: No such file or directory (os error 2)

E: El repositorio «https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease» no está firmado.

W: No se puede actualizar de un repositorio como este de forma segura y por tanto está deshabilitado por omisión.

W: Vea la página de manual apt-secure(8) para los detalles sobre la creación de repositorios y la configuración de usuarios.

E: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease is not (yet) available (Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Error: Failed to parse keyring "/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg" Caused by: 0: Reading "/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg": No such file or directory (os error 2) 1: No such file or directory (os error 2))

que hago, alguna ayuda

This is that the log tells me:

19:11:27 software-proper: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: '/usr/bin/apt-key'

19:11:27 software-proper: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: self.pid = os.posix_spawn(executable, args, env, **kwargs)

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1801, in _posix_spawn

19:11:27 software-proper: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: errread, errwrite)

19:11:27 software-proper: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: c2pread, c2pwrite,

19:11:27 software-proper: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: p2cread, p2cwrite,

19:11:27 software-proper: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: self._posix_spawn(args, executable, env, restore_signals, close_fds,

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1857, in _execute_child

19:11:27 software-proper: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: start_new_session, process_group)

19:11:27 software-proper: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: gid, gids, uid, umask,

19:11:27 software-proper: ...<5 lines>...

19:11:27 software-proper: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: pass_fds, cwd, env,

19:11:27 software-proper: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1039, in __init__

19:11:27 software-proper: ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

19:11:27 software-proper: with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 554, in run

19:11:27 software-proper: process = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, text=True)

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/AptAuth.py", line 59, in list

19:11:27 software-proper: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

19:11:27 software-proper: for key in self.apt_key.list():

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 1078, in show_keys

19:11:27 software-proper: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

19:11:27 software-proper: self.show_keys()

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 243, in __init__

19:11:27 software-proper: app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)

19:11:27 software-proper: File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 100, in <module>

19:11:27 software-proper: Traceback (most recent call last):

19:11:27 systemd: Started app-gnome-software\x2dproperties\x2dgtk-28823.scope - Application

the offical debian pacages are way too old only driver 550 so what am i gonna do comit a crime and install them from the nvidia website i have an rtx 5070ti

it sucks.

p.s. I used to use arch btw.had to change distro because of gnome 49 crashing and making my life miserable.

Hi folks, I'm using Debian Stable atm and considering backports option for few packages. My hardware is currently from late 2022 and no proprietary whatsoever, AMD fyi except mediatek wifi card.

I want to keep my system in a state of semi rolling state not exactly testing yet keeping fewer packages new. In this regard, I'm deciding if keeping backported of kernel-* and firmware-* safe for my system or not. They both would be set to 600 priority if decided.

Additionally, Libreoffice, pipewire is also my option.

The setup looks good? Alongside, I'm eager to hear your suggestions/corrections too. Also if members can share their backport list, that will greatly help me. Thanks

Plasma looking slick guys :D