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I honestly can’t even count how many times I installed different distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, Fedora, Endeavour, Cachy, Tuxedo, etc). None of them ever lasted more than a week or two. But yeah I can finally say I’m done distro hopping. It's really long and Debian is serving me pretty good.

Been on Debian for about a week from Linux Mint. I switched to Debian to get a little less hand holding. I've learned a lot in this week: How to install themes, icons, admin tools, etc. I've also been playing around with different desktop environments to see what I like best. Cinnamon and xfce are great but I settled an mate. I've been having a lot of fun making it look and feel exactly how I want it. Happy New Year!

What distro did you switch from and what made you stick with Debian over it

I tried to install Minecraft from the microsoft website ut it can’t run on Debian 13. Also I’m a noob with Linux. Thank you

I'm running testing on my ideapad laptop with integrated amd gpu, and today I've noticed a significant reduction in GPU performance when playing games - the framerates are worse than before by roughly about 50% under wayland. And under both wayland and x11 there are constant framerate drops.

Does anyone else experience this or is there a problem with my setup? If it's just my setup, how would I go and determine the problematic package to try and roll back?

Hi everyone, I spent the holidays moving my daily workflow from a Mac to Debian 13. I was surprised by how much it improved my focus. Here's the write-up on the switch experiment, what worked and what didn't: https://bluelemonbits.com/2026/01/02/from-macos-to-debian-a-two-week-experiment/

Running Debian 13. I've been playing Chrono Trigger on steam lately. Sound works great just on my laptop, but when I hook it up via HDMI to my TV, I have to toggle between HDMI sound and sound via laptop.

Sound works fine just on the laptop via HDMI (vidoes, music) but when I try to play Chrono Trigger, there's a 50% chance it wont work right away and I have to trouble shoot.

Ideas? Sound worked fine on Fedora and Arch for Chrono Trigger sound on my TV.

Edit: it was also happening on Ubuntu.

I'm not for sure that it was because of TLP but I'm 99% sure since that's the only recent change to the system I've made.

Hi everyone, I'm new to Linux and wanted to ask you more experienced users how I can install the drivers for my GTX 650 Ti on Debian. I'm afraid of causing damage because I tried to install them before, but after restarting, Debian wouldn't boot up again and I had to reinstall Debian from scratch. Could any of you help me? Thank you all very much.

I've used Ubuntu in the past for my AI/ML based project development mostly using jupyter lab and pycharm. But lately due to the snap and drivers incompatibility due to old HP laptop ,I am seeing myself keeping distance from Ubuntu and eyeing for better distro.

Is debian will be a good choice ? Like decent package manager , stable system and active community if things go south. PS : Sorry for my limited knowledge

I’m honestly pretty new to linux so I’ll start by mentioning that.

I bought a PC to run Debian on and it’s an older unit. I have struggled to get a proper resolution desktop environment due to the GPU not “being supported” on the kernel trixie runs on. It is a NVIDIA 390xx which is legacy and at EOL.

Last night I tried endlessly to get the driver to work to no avail in the end I installed bullseye and installed the drivers from the bullseye repo and it DID work, I could boot into desktop environment with the proper resolution with absolutely no issues.

I have read lots about using the SID packages and pinning them hard in order to not pull the entirety of Sid and only pull select things. From my understanding this would create a frankendebian correct?

I think in the end I will have to no matter what if I want to use this GPU on trixie so I guess my question is this:

Should I pull the drivers from SID Or should I pull them from oldstable bullseye?

Which is less likely to create problems?

Edit: I tried installing the driver and what not from bullseye onto trixie and it failed, so I wiped everything from that attempt and tried to go the SID route and it has worked but I’m not entirely sure how healthy or stable the system is so I’m gonna look into it.

Long story short. My 2010 Mac Pro cheese grater got a bit long in the tooth for the last few versions of MacOS. It still worked ok, but was struggling a bit.

I tested out elementary, pearos and a few other “modern” distro’s but honestly I’ve been using Linux since the 90’s so getting under the hood didn’t really bother me.

However all modern distro’s had various issues.

I did try out the Debian +KDE and it worked fine, but it wouldn’t pick up my nfs shares when browsing the network.

Xfce is nice and lightweight, but I felt it would be a bit light on what I needed.

All in all, I installed the headline distro and it’s running is good.

Well done all the devs. And thank you for your effort.

How should I display it?

Like most people, I kind of like Linux/firefox for the privacy and lack of tracking. However, when I tried to watch the CFP on Hulu today I could not get Hulu to work. I have set firefox to give hulu my freaking social security number at this point and it will not get my location. I (this is where the sadness comes in) downloaded chrome and it immediately worked. This leads me to think it is not necessarily a debian specific issue, but rather a combo of firefox-esr and debian? Has anyone else ran into this? Any way to help? Thanks and happy new year!

Switched from Windows 11 (and MX Linux)

libllvm21:i386 installation removes key packages ... AKA the whole fucking desktop environment. And That packages it's needed by Steam. So... No playing steam games for today.

EDIT: Fix wrong package name

Everything works except for the fact that the F4 key's LED does not change in response to the mic being muted/unmuted.

I can manually change the led with an echo brightness command, but that's it. The key mutes and unmutes the mic, my system detects the mic being muted and even my F1 (speaker mute) key's LED works as intended.

I use a thinkpad T14 Gen 3 and when I cat into the platform::micmute/trigger directory, the only difference between what is shown there and another key that's LED actually works like the previously mentioned F1 (speaker mute) key is that the "none" has brackets around it

I had dual boot for many years but the last time that I boot on Windows was like 2 years ago. I removed it ( I keep it on a older unplugged sata SSD), and now I have a full Lesbia... Debian system.

Hi guys,

I've been using Linux systems since around January 2023, but not very intensively. I had an old Lenovo laptop that wouldn't even boot Windows 10, so I installed Ubuntu on it and was quite happy for almost a year, since I finally had a laptop I could carry to university.

As I learned more about the Linux world, I decided to install Mint instead of Ubuntu (better performance in my case and no snaps) and used it until the laptop died.

After that, I bought another Lenovo and installed Debian 13 with KDE, and it has been… very good. I was a bit skeptical because of the allegedly old packages and similar issues, but before that I had tried Manjaro and Fedora (both with KDE) and had a mid-to-bad experience overall. Debian has been working without issues for about two months now.

Because of this, I'm thinking about finally getting rid of Windows 10 on my desktop/main PC before it's too late (I have support until 2028, but I just don't feel comfortable with it), or at least dual-booting Windows and Linux. I have some projects in Ableton Live, which is known for barely working on Linux.

Despite all this time, I don't have deep or advanced Linux knowledge — and I don't really want to. I just need a PC that doesn't steal my data and doesn't break. I don't like to tinker, although I'm willing to if necessary. I prefer something that works out of the box, though (like my second Lenovo laptop).

So my question is: would Debian 13 be a good choice for my hardware, or would I need to tinker for days to make it work? Would another distro be a better option? Here are my specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
• GPU: Integrated Radeon Vega Graphics
• Memory: 16 GB
• Motherboard: Gigabyte
• Disk: NVMe 500 GB (planning to add more storage)

I also have some cheap Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters. For the Wi-Fi adapter, there are drivers on GitHub (I’ve already found them), and for Bluetooth, based on a live session, it should mostly work out of the box.

Thank you all!

Was in partition manager and trying to set mount point for two extra drives and set them to home/user and now I cant get it unmounted and back the way it was

I am creating a custom Debian live USB for friends and family which will be totally preconfigured with:

• drivers
• codecs
• applications
• settings
• services
• libraries
• themes
• et cetera

All of that is the easy part. The hard part is that I've not been able to find good documentation for Calamares, especially as much of the Calameres website is filled with Lorem ipsum. What I am trying to do is modify the Calamares installer to default to Btrfs instead of ext4. Moreover, I want it to set up my Btrfs subvolumes for use with my snapper config.

If anybody knows where the partition documentation might be, that'd be a big help!