So... we're now just shipping drivers that are known to have security issues in them? That people use every day on production systems?

I love Debian and wanted to come back on an older ThinkPad with an NVIDIA GPU, am I missing something here? I'm quite confused. How am I supposed to use my NVIDIA card securely now?

Help is greatly appreciated, sorry if this comes off as a bit mean but this is kinda wild in my opinion

Looking forward to ditch win10. Heard about this 2 as very popular linux flavour/distro to start with. Am newbie to linux community so pls be nice to me. Which one should I pick and why? Want to know from long term users.

Running Trixie and Gnome.

When it comes to codecs, where can I find them? On Fedora, RPM Fusion makes everything ready to use. Is there any website like that for Debian that organizes these things for people who want to use Debian as their main desktop system?

Thanks in advance for the help, and sorry for any typos. This was translated using Google Translate.

Hello. I'm using Debian Stable 13.6 and have noticed that many other users have already installed version 13.7.

Since I use GNOME (48), I always go to Settings > System > Software Updates, check for updates there, and install them. Sometimes there are system updates as well, but the 13.7 update isn’t showing up for me yet. Is there a better way to update Debian? Also, is it possible to install GNOME 50 on Debian Stable? Thank you.

Been running Debian Trixie for about 9 days now and really enjoying it. Coming from other distros I was a bit hesitant, but it's been rock solid.

One thing I'm curious about: I'm running the XanMod kernel and Mesa from backports. When Debian 14 eventually drops, will that make the upgrade process more complicated or painful? Should I be worried about conflicts, or is it generally straightforward to sort out before upgrading?

people often say that 3rd party repos makes debian more unstable, but then why companies that support linux almost always list debian as a compatible distro? and their software requires 3rd party repos most of the time

of course there are exceptions, but talking about proprietary stuff specifically, almost everything officially supports debian

Hey, there are a few packages I want to get but aren't available in stable right now. What do you usually do? Build from source? add the app's repo? pull from unstable?

Edit: Just looking for best practices. One of the examples is Waydroid, only in sid/testing, and no AppImage.

SOLVED: I installed aptitude and installed steam-installer though that. It worked perfectly.

I'm using Debian 13, I had the GPU drivers from AMDs own repository installed, but uninstalled them because they seemed to be causing kernel module build failures when upgrading. I reverted back to the AMD GPU drivers in Debian's repositories and I was able to upgrade my system normally again.

I already have libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 installed. Why is apt trying to install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386? Is my system broken beyond repair?

Windows 10 and windows 11 are bad for me and they are getting worse so i will install debian on my laptop but I don't know if i have to install kde plasma or gnome some people say that gnome is better and more minimalist and some other people say kde plasma is highly customizable....but i tried kde plasma for 1 hour and it wasn't "cool" as it should be so would you guys recommend me to try gnome, i already know that i have to install some extension...but is the "gnome experience" good or not including dealing with its windows and some other details....please write your suggestions in the comments.

I just switched from cachyos to debian (stable) and I wanna know if I can install mangowc

First time using linux

I have performed a shasum -a256 /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) of my current stable kernel and got the result

15fd5a2712ff71a828afebb0fc6efb64b367c7612e652357ed1aaed198ae0ae3

I could not find any SHA256 kernel values. Is there a SHA256 value? this is for my current kernel value of 6.12.100+deb13-amd64

Very odd bug I didn't expect to see, on latest stable version tested with both small and complete instances on two different computers, I don't think it's a user error since everything else is English but is this just me? Very minor bug but an odd one. Not sure whether I'd report this to Debian or LXDE

Updated my kernel to version 6.12.105 recently and could not boot my system on that version. Tried updating my Nvidia drivers. and now I can no longer boot into any version, even in recovery mode.

If you need any more information I'm happy to help.

Look Debian powers my homelab, I’m very familiar with it and know how it works and have used it in the past.

My question is what do I lose by migrating from Arch to something like Debian? What little things in the AUR I use I’m comfortable losing or switching to flatpaks. I’m more concerned about things like Nvidia drivers and Wayland support.

So I have a bunch of flacs that I want to mass convert to mp3s to have on my mp3 player while at school, as they ban phones, I tried vlc media player, but it stripped the metadata from the songs, I've heard of ffmpeg, and tried to learn it, but all the YouTube videos I've found are years old, and I can't really find anything else online. Can I get some help to learn ffmpeg, or are there any alternative methods that work on debian 13?

Hello, Debian-users! One thing that definitely keeps me from looking at other distros is the absolute friendliness of this community. ☺☺ I have gotten so much help and learned a great bit during this Linux-journey. Now I have a new question. I have began wondering about the daily performance of my system and specifically been peeking at the memory.

▤ ―――――――――――――――

My hardware (HP-laptop from 2018)
―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
Processor: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM
Graphics processor: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

My software:
―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
Debian 13 Trixie
KDE Plasma 6

I don't have a lot of heavy things going on, but when I am at my highest levels of volume - with at least two virtual desktops running som applications and watching some video - I fill up my physical RAM and the system acts slower. As it then starts depending on my 4 GB swapfile (if I have understood that correctly?). My CPU looks mostly great, through stress-perspective, it seems to be healthy. Should I consider using Zram? Or should I just enable Zswap? That I have read is the reasonable thing to do if I do not have a specific reason to use ZRAM.

I wanted to put an old PC to use so I decided that I am going to burn a Debian mini.iso onto a cd and install Debian onto it.

I see a lot of stuff online talking about Debian being a stable OS that is also good for network-attached storages.

I am planning on installing with no DE as it will be useless.

Do you guys recommend using Debian for this?

Here are the PC's specs for those curious: eMachines EL1333G-01W 64bit
CPU: AMD Athlon 2850e, 1.8GHz
CPU CORES: 1 core / 1 thread
CPU cache: 512 KB L2
Socket: AM2
Chipset & Graphics: NVDIA GeForce 6150 SE /nforce 430 (integrated)
RAM: 2x1GB DDR2
Storage: 320 GB SATA HDD, 7200 RPM
Network: 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Motherboard: eMachines/Acer WMCP61M, NVDIA nForce 6100/430 chipset

To start I'm pretty new to Linux and Debian. I tried to install some Nvidia drivers a while back. I installed nvidia-detect, it suggested I install the nvidia-driver package and I did. Install seemed to go correctly, however after rebooting the drivers wouldn't load at all. I managed to purge the drivers and some kind of driver loaded, but it didn't really work well (only one display, refresh rate incorrect and so on).

Now I tried following the Nvidia guide for Debian, however I got a not found error when trying to select a version. Then I followed the install guide in the Debian wiki, that seemed to go through, however at the verify step I ran

# dkms status 'nvidia*'

But got a command not found. I have dkms installed and

apt-file search bin/dkms

Returns

dkms: /usr/sbin/dkms

The drivers themself work better however there are some kind of issues (slight flickering, refresh rate doesn't feel right). What could the issue be?

EDIT:

I used this guide to install the drivers again and it seems like it is working. It's weird, since I remember trying that exact method previously and it didn't work, I guess something changed or I did something differently this time.

Hi! In a few months, when I finish some projects, I plan to migrate from Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based) to Debian, and I need it to be as lightweight as possible. Any tips? The only thing I absolutely want is the Xfce desktop environment. Thanks!

I gotta go to work soon so can't make and add any logs until about 8 hours from now but you can see the issue I'm running into on the screenshot

I've been having trouble setting up my brand new deb13 system, a few of the things I wanted to download needed some package that Exist, but apt couldn't find/install on 13 even after running apt-get update. I managed to circumvent some of that with flatpak, but now I actually need to figure it out to make my printer work. Please help.

edit: the problem has already been solved under another post please do not reply to this one

i was just using my computer, then it froze and a lot of text started appearing

it says failed to write entry to /var/log/journal/a7921...9c4e/system.journal

after waiting abit, it says it failed to do a bunch of stuff and im now stuck, the only thing i can do is power it off

how do I solve this help pls