r/debian • • 12h ago

General Debian Question I need help installing. It's my first time installing debian and I'm kinda slow :p

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26 Upvotes

r/debian • • 14m ago

Dash to Panel issues

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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!


r/debian • • 9h ago

What does installing a blend actually do?

9 Upvotes

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.


r/debian • • 4h ago

Can't find a graphical NFC reader, writer.

3 Upvotes

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.


r/debian • • 1d ago

New rule: low quality posts

209 Upvotes

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.


r/debian • • 20h ago

Community Simple Wallpaper for Debian

30 Upvotes

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 :)

1920x1080 purple Debian wallpaper

Download the PSD file.


r/debian • • 14h ago

Debian 13 para uso diário (Dev, Estudos e Jogos)

9 Upvotes

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.


r/debian • • 11h ago

Debian Stable Question Cursor acting weird

6 Upvotes

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


r/debian • • 1d ago

Why does it feel so good when you search for a package you need, that it's in the deb repos so you dont have to use flatpak or something else

83 Upvotes

maybe we all have ocd


r/debian • • 15h ago

Debian Stable Question Help! Youtube video playback has color banding?

4 Upvotes

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


r/debian • • 22h ago

Boot TTY mode only

10 Upvotes

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.


r/debian • • 22h ago

PSA for people affected by the bug where the latest kernel update broke keyboards on certain ASUS laptops. Fix is on the way

10 Upvotes

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


r/debian • • 19h ago

Black screen when trying to install Debian ARM64 on VirtualBox 7.2.20 (Snapdragon C Plus CPU)

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r/debian • • 22h ago

what is the best way to install up to date packages on debian

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r/debian • • 1d ago

How to install screenrecorder in debian 11 with gnome and wayland

11 Upvotes

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


r/debian • • 1d ago

It was a challenge but got completely resurrected. Pentium Core 2 Duo w/Debian 12

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173 Upvotes

Thanks to u/Gianfyy I got a 2nd boost motivation to keep pushing on this machine. It came with a suspicious Windows 8 calling for help

This was quite the experience, Chromium browsers killed the xfce session as soon as a video or a song started to play, only Firefox ESR did the job, I tried, Debian 13, MX Linux, Linux Mint in live mode, and with that publication I manage to understand that old processors work differently than modern ones, it's obvious, but I never thought that distros and programs would feel it that hard.

Here it is, a last oxygen tank for this old machine, to do basic stuff for their owners until it just calculate it's last calculation.


r/debian • • 22h ago

I got Canonical's Myna voice dictation working on Debian 13 (Trixie) with GNOME 48 / Wayland

2 Upvotes

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.


r/debian • • 21h ago

is debian good for hobbyist programmers

1 Upvotes

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


r/debian • • 1d ago

Help: Install Debian with RTX 5090

14 Upvotes

Hey. so I finally got ready to switch to linux on my main PC, but I'm running into a stupid issue:
The PC has a RTX 5090 so when I start the debian installer I get no video (I assume it's because I need to install the drivers manually). But since I have no video I can't really do anything.
My Mainboard doesn't have HDMI (or VGA) so the only video output is the 5090.

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

(also yes nextime i will just buy radeon)


r/debian • • 2d ago

just forced my granny to install debian lol

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132 Upvotes

r/debian • • 2d ago

Community [Artwork] Surul — A Minimalist Debian 14 (Forky) Wallpaper Proposal

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218 Upvotes

r/debian • • 2d ago

Community Debian capybara plymouth theme

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r/debian • • 2d ago

Community (Deb of Fame) updated my Debian 14 wallpaper submission, with more variants

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53 Upvotes

found out the original one was way too cramped, so I tweaked it to look good with (almost) every aspect ratio, as well as adding a shadow to the swirl

GitHub repo, containing all the variants


r/debian • • 2d ago

General Debian Question Should I move to Debian as a gamer?

54 Upvotes

I'm switching to Linux today (dual boot for now, on one drive) and Debian just seems and looks cool and beautiful. I have Ryzen 5 5600; Rx 6600 and 32gb ddr4.

I mostly play single player games (repack versions), so I don't worry about kernel level anticheat ones.

What would I need to know and do before starting my journey on Debian?


r/debian • • 2d ago

Desktop icons disappear.

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Hello, friends. I'm new to Debian Cinn from Mint Cinn, but still newish overall to Linux. After being taught how to add bazaar and practicing on my tester, I've moved my laptop to Debian from Mint.

What's going on is that my pictures are icons. I thought the solution would be easy. I found the command shown below. It did show my pictures in the folders, but my desktop had nothing. I have to change the integer to true to see all of my desktop stuffs, or even in folders. Did I follow the wrong rabbit ?

gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false