i wanna know if debian is good for progamming, are the old packages actually a worry? i'm familiar with linux and have used it for the last year

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.

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.

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.

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

English is not my first language

I need to screenrecord because college

I ve been struggling with screenrecording apps like simplescreenrecord, kazam, obs, kooha, and many others, few of them need the x11 (and i dont know how to switch to that), and the other apps can record but when i open the video it appears all black

I dont know too much of how to do these things , i can understand english but my first language is spanish if that helps

Please help

maybe we all have ocd

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.

I wanted to share my experience getting Canonical's Myna local speech-to-text tool running on Debian 13.

I successfully tested it on Debian 13 (Trixie), with GNOME 48 under Wayland. French voice dictation works on my machine.

The installation was not straightforward because Myna is primarily targeted at Ubuntu:

• Debian's packaged snapd was too old for the version of Myna I installed, so I upgraded it.
• Myna Settings is distributed as an Ubuntu-targeted .deb, so I built it from the official upstream source instead of adding the Ubuntu PPA to Debian.
• The Myna Snap and speech-recognition backend needed to be installed and connected.
• The Myna user service was enabled but initially inactive; starting it manually got dictation running.

I've documented the commands, dependencies and troubleshooting steps in the official Myna project's GitHub Discussions:

https://github.com/canonical/myna/discussions/58

This is an unofficial community-tested procedure validated on one Debian 13 machine, not a claim of official Debian support. Other hardware and desktop configurations may need additional adjustments.

Hopefully this helps other Debian users who want local, offline desktop dictation. Feedback from anyone who tries it on another setup would be very welcome.

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