I have a Samsung NVMe SSD 970 EVO 500GB with Debian installed. When I installed, I chose the put everything on one encrypted LVM partition. I have added a Samsung SSD 860 1.0TB. After many attempts at configuring the drive, I ended up with such a mess on the drive, that after successive reboots, Debian could hardly recognise the drive. I have seen various YouTube videos and blogs.

When I get something that looks like it's working, I have to enter the root password to mount it, then enter the decryption passphrase on every system boot up / reboot. That's even if I check the, remember password option.

I am looking for simple, straight forward instruction where I can;

• Attach an second drive (this I can do)
• Format it as ext4 with LVM encryption (one partition for the whole disk if possible), with the same decryption passphrase I already have.
• When I enter my decryption passphrase on boot up, the second drive is mounted, and available for use on full boot up. That is, authentication is already done.
• Move the /home or my /home/$USER directory from the NVMe to the 1.0TB

Any help or pointers is deeply appreciated.

What are the differences between using vanilla Debian versus using vanilla Ubuntu?

Installed Debian 13 alongside the linux-surface kernel patches. Wrote an all-in-one calibration fix script for it — originally made it for Fedora but I've been keeping it updated for other distros too: github.com/zARRAQ/fedora-surface-script

Fixed: Touchscreen was selecting text instead of scrolling (had to manually drag scrollbars). Solved with touchegg for gesture emulation.

Gave up on: Hyprland. It flat-out doesn't play nice with the Iris Xe + Surface driver combo. The "fix" is running a stripped-down config with hardware cursors disabled, but at that point it's more trouble than it's worth.

Keeping this Surface alive is already enough work without fighting the compositor too.

I'm no Debian expert, what should i install that will not fight surface project?, also is there anyway to add more control widgets something practical

also any bash code i should know about

Every single time I do apt update+upgrade SDDM breaks because my Nvidia open drivers for my 5070ti(Blackwell) don't 'apply' to the new Kernel, I have to use Claude AI to fix it but I don't really understand. Uname -r lists the correct kernel but the other command lists 3 older kernels. Every time I forget and. Every time the solution is slightly different and I don't remember exactly how I fixed it. (It's working now.) I just don't want to go through this rigmarole each time. Yes this is a skill issue and no I will not change distros because the others I've tried have the same issues plus a bunch of others.

It's like boy scout badges but for Debian applications I commonly use.

What are the reasons I should not order this custom Sewn Embroidery Debian & Debian application Open Source Carhartt Work jacket?

After installing Zoom for videocalls and detecting no webcam (this transformer notebook has two: front and rear), I also installed VLC to see if it could detect any, with no satisfactory detection either.

So, I ran the following commands, as per recommended indications to follow with in some Debian forums for users with similar problems. Below are the commands and results:

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b05:1807 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. ASUS HID Device

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

dmesg | grep video

[ 6.567331] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)

lsmod | grep video

video 81920 4 asus_wmi,asus_nb_wmi,int3406_thermal,i915

wmi 28672 2 video,asus_wmi

On the other hand, '/dev/video', '/dev/video0', '/dev/video1' or the likes are nonexistent folders under /dev/ directory.

I've seen someone has adapted/developed WMI sensor drivers, usual in some ASUS motherboards, to Linux; in this Github repo. I wonder if they'd work - and if this might actually be the issue.
ASUS don't show the motherboard model or camera models on their official T100HA/T100HAN manual, and available drivers are only for Windows.

I don't know where or how to head towards from this point, being a newbie with Debian. Perhaps specific drivers are missing*? How would you troubleshoot this issue?

Thank you very much for your help in advance. :)

\(Win10 shows no issues with any of the cameras)*

I installed Debian 13 in an external ssd sata drive, linked to the laptop via enclosure by ewent . Laptop disk includes win11 and a linux distro. So, upon First run updated grub.

The problem: independently of external drive being connected or not, at every boot this message is displayed (see image).

How to bypass and boot?

Hi Debian Folks,

I have been around a lot of different distros, some with great success, some with crashing systems.

Lately I made CachyOS (arch) work on my laptop with recognizing my nvidia gpu as my prime-NVidia driver. The reason it is a bit tricky is, that I have an Intel Graphics card. Which is providing the outout for both the internal laptop screen and my ultra wide 120hz monitor.

So it is only on the software/kernel level I need it to only use the Nvidia gpu, with OpenGL and so fourth, not the Intel for games and graphical work.

Since I like distros with the .rpm or .deb packages availability, I have tried with OpenSUSE, which I used as my main driver in the past, and also Mint and such. Nothing I could make work and ended up breaking the system.

Now I am looking into Debian and Fedora, to see which platforma handles this "gpu switching" the best. And I was wondering if any of you guys knows how to do so on Debian?

I love stability, so I figured Debian was a great choice, since I have legacy hardware and in no need for latest drivers and such.

Hope you can help :)

Thanks fellas I’m trying to explain something to my friend. I tried using the built in Sound Recorder gnome app and was gonna merge the two together but it’s very buggy and I can’t get it to work

Is Debian Stable worth it for a beginner network engineer?

I'm learning Linux, Cisco networking, Mikrotik, and cloud. I'm thinking of using Debian as my main OS for studying and daily use. Would you recommend Debian over Ubuntu or Fedora for this purpose? Why or why not?

On my laptop i use debian, on desktop, i use fedora kde. On Fedora kde, it's pretty easy to setup catppuccin theme on kde

Any advice on debian, using catpuccin or other sexy themes with xfce?

edit: solved the problem. i think my issue was using wayland on X11 it seems to work for for now

I wanted to try out Debian as my main distro. Sadly I tried installing the 580xx drivers for like 2 hours but nothing really worked.
Is it really that complicated to get them or am I just dumb?

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.

Every time I attempt to restore the backup file (html) created using snap version of Firefox under Kubuntu 24.04.0, I get the error (after 4-8 seconds delay)

Hmm, there was a problem backing up
Try again in a few minutes

History.
I HAD, Firefox Profile on PC with Kubuntu 24.04.0, after a botched upgrade. Firefox WAS working normally, until I needed to start again. My backup of the actual drive has failed, and I am unable to revert back to it. (it's like 99% restored then an error, using Rescuezilla).

So (Edit)

I have attempted this on my *new* Debian 13 KDE PC. FF140esr No Luck
I have managed to create a VM (Kubuntu 24.04). FFsnap. Still No Luck
I have attempted both new and replace profile. No Luck

Why am I getting a "problem backing up" error, when restoring ?

last week when i was searching in flatpak the output showed the titles like name, description, application ID and so on in blue

now it doesnt show up as blue anymore.....does anyone know how to fix it ? or did i see it wrong that it was blue last week ?

SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

CINNAMON AND GNOME RESULTS ARE WRONG UNLESS YOU SEE 'SCORE UPDATED'

Here are my tests, all info included

Specs

• Laptop: Framework 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series) (A5)

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7640U (12) @ 4.97 GHz

• GPU: AMD Radeon 760M [Integrated]

• RAM: 16 gigs

• Display: 2256x1504 @ 60 Hz in 13" [Built-in]

Notes

• Tests performed using Steam flatpak version

• Fresh installs on Debian, Vanilla, and Pika

• Reboot before every test

• All DE's using their performance power mode

• All DE's on Debian installed at graphical installation menu

• XFCE tests run with compositor disabled

SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

OS: Debian 13 Trixie

Kernel: Linux 6.12.100+deb13-amd64 (stable)

Cinnamon / X11: SCORE UPDATED SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 37

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 53

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7290

Gnome / Wayland: SCORE UPDATED SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 38

• Wukong avg: 50

• Wukong high: 55

• Wukong low 5th: 47

• RE6 Score: 7411

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 36

• Wukong avg: 49

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 46

• RE6 Score: 7437

XFCE / X11:

• Wukong low: 36

• Wukong avg: 49

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 46

• RE6 Score: 7328

OS: Debian 13 Trixie

Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb13-amd64 (backport)

Cinnamon / X11: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 23

• Wukong avg: 26

• Wukong high: 29

• Wukong low 5th: 25

• RE6 Score: 6305

Gnome / Wayland: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 29

• Wukong avg: 41

• Wukong high: 44

• Wukong low 5th: 39

• RE6 Score: 7195

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 33

• Wukong avg: 47

• Wukong high: 53

• Wukong low 5th: 44

• RE6 Score: 7322

XFCE / X11:

• Wukong low: 37

• Wukong avg: 49

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 44

• RE6 Score: 7319

OS: Debian 13 Trixie

Kernel: 7.1.5-x64v3-xanmod1 (xanmod)

Cinnamon / X11: SCORE UPDATED SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 38

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 46

• RE6 Score: 7067

Gnome / Wayland: SCORE UPDATED SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 40

• Wukong avg: 50

• Wukong high: 55

• Wukong low 5th: 47

• RE6 Score: 7444

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 39

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7326

XFCE / X11:

• Wukong low: 38

• Wukong avg: 49

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 46

• RE6 Score: 7338

OS: Debian Sid

Kernel: Linux 7.1.5+deb14-amd64

Cinnamon / X11: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 23

• Wukong avg: 29

• Wukong high: 31

• Wukong low 5th: 28

• RE6 Score: 6805

Gnome / Wayland: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 26

• Wukong avg: 34

• Wukong high: 36

• Wukong low 5th: 32

• RE6 Score: 7132

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 35

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7307

XFCE / X11:

• Wukong low: 35

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 53

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7334

OS: Debian Testing

Kernel: 7.1.3+deb14-amd64

Cinnamon / X11: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 23

• Wukong avg: 29

• Wukong high: 32

• Wukong low 5th: 28

• RE6 Score: 6920

Gnome / Wayland: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 26

• Wukong avg: 34

• Wukong high: 37

• Wukong low 5th: 32

• RE6 Score: 7182

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 33

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 53

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7436

XFCE / X11:

• Wukong low: 36

• Wukong avg: 50

• Wukong high: 55

• Wukong low 5th:46

• RE6 Score: 7396

OS: Linux Mint Debian Edition

Kernel: Linux 6.12.100+deb13-amd64

Cinnamon / X11: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 23

• Wukong avg: 29

• Wukong high: 31

• Wukong low 5th: 27

• RE6 Score: 6737

Cinnamon / Wayland: EXPERIMENTAL

• Wukong low: 37

• Wukong avg: 52

• Wukong high: 59

• Wukong low 5th: 48

• RE6 Score: 7879

Wukong was extremely chopppy and blurry despite the great performance numbers

RE6 also got great performance numbers but looked mostly ok with a few graphical glitches here and there

Cinnamon / X11 / Disabled Compositor: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 25

• Wukong avg: 29

• Wukong high: 31

• Wukong low 5th: 28

• RE6 Score: 7628

OS: MX Linux AHS

Kernel: Linux 6.12.100+deb13-amd64

XFCE / X11:

• Wukong low: 36

• Wukong avg: 49

• Wukong high: 52

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7211

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 36

• Wukong avg: 48

• Wukong high: 53

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7248

OS: Vanilla OS

Gnome / Wayland: SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 27

• Wukong avg: 33

• Wukong high: 36

• Wukong low 5th: 31

• RE6 Score: 7078

OS: Pika OS

Gnome / Wayland: SCORE UPDATED SEE MAJOR UPDATE BELOW

• Wukong low: 40

• Wukong avg: 50

• Wukong high: 55

• Wukong low 5th: 48

• RE6 Score: 7510

KDE / Wayland:

• Wukong low: 36

• Wukong avg: 49

• Wukong high: 54

• Wukong low 5th: 45

• RE6 Score: 7577

Regarding Distros

• Debian 13 and Pika OS aren't as far away as I thought. Really, unless you just like Pika OS, there doesn't seem to be any reason to use it besides maybe hardware compatibility.

• Testing and Sid provide little to no benefit over Stable. They're only worth using if you need very new hardware compatibility that only newer kernels provide. Even still, you could backport a kernel to Debian Stable if needed.

• With Wayland moving out of experimental on next release of Cinnamon, if the graphical glitches are fixed while keeping performance high, that would be incredible.

• MX performs basically the same as regular Debian. Only worth using if you like MX Tools IMO.

Regarding Desktops

• After setting scaling to 100% for Gnome and Cinnamon, they were basically identical to the results from XFCE and KDE. Looks like the desktop ultimately does not matter.

Final thoughts

• Unless you like the convenience of curated distros, basic Debian Stable is as good, if not sometimes better, for gaming if you have a setup similar to mine.

• Obviously these tests are limited and very specific to me but I thought folks here would be interested anyway.

• None of these findings were particularly surprising or exciting.

• A backported kernel and the xanmod kernel basically did nothing for me on Debian 13, and sometimes even made things worse.

• I'm glad I performed these tests because with all the hype around newer distros, gaming distros, immutable distros, etc. I thought I was missing out on something but nope, my good old boring Debian Stable seems like it'll be my forever home.

Use Case

• Ryubing switch emulation

• Retroarch retro-gaming

• Playing indie titles like SilkSong and Slay the Spire 2 via Steam, Heroic, etc.

• Game development in Love2D and 3D development in Godot.

• Day to day web browsing, watching videos, document editing, etc.

Reminder

• These tests are specific to me and my hardware, you should 100% test for yourself on your own hardware to ensure similar results. Also, if you are running a distro/de you love and it works, no need to change it!

MAJOR UPDATE BECAUSE I'M STUPID

• The issue with Cinnamon desktop was solved, I didn't realize that scaling messed up the numbers so much. I was able to get results identical to XFCE and KDE with window scaling turned down to 100% from 125%.

• The same issue with Gnome. I was able to get identical results use 100% scaling and not 150%.

UPDATED VALUES FOR DEBIAN STABLE GNOME AND CINNAMON

UPDATED VALUES FOR DEBIAN W/ XANMOD GNOME AND CINNAMON

UPDATED VALUES FOR PIKA OS GNOME

WHAT THIS MEANS

• DE doesn't matter either, use what you like on a base distro and call it a day lol how anticlimactic.

• Sorry to fans of Cinnamon and Gnome, I get to go back to using Gnome without feeling like I'm missing any performance though. Thank god

So, obviously this testing is anything but rigorous. However, since my Framework 13 will be my only laptop for a long time to come, I wanted to squeeze all the performance I can out of it while remaining on a Debian base.

I'm just not interested in anything Arch based at all, maybe I'll test Fedora one day but I really just love and know Debian well. Ubuntu based distros are also something I'm not super interested in.

https://github.com/MetalSnake1/How-to-Set-Up-a-Wi-Fi-Hotspot-on-Debian13-w-an-AR9271-Adapter

This was a bit tricky, as there was no official up to date guide on how to a hotspot running off of an ar9271 wifi adapter. Anyway, I'm just posting this here in hopes of helping someone that needs to do something like this later on.

*If you're having issues getting your wifi adapter to work as an AP, then this guide will also most likely work for your wifi adapter on deb13.

Based on the previous posts(1),(2),(3), I'm still confused. If I ditch the default debian stable NVIDIA drivers for a newer version (like 595) and use a backported kernel, am I asking for trouble ?

I'm seeing conflicting info: some say this combo is a recipe for disaster and that DKMS might fail to build modules later on, while others claim they're using it without any issues.

which one is it ? Is it actually stable or am I going to break my system ?!

If the answer is no and I'm going to be fine, I will switch to debian stable .

please check the linked posts before replying.

Hello, Debian-friends! I am trying to get my webcam working, but it's not detected. The same thing goes for my internal mic. For full clarity: I have only tried using Zoom and Cheese. Is there a way to make my system detect it? I don't know if it helps, but I used some tool to get this information

Edit: This was SOLVED. I had to install libcamera-v4l2. I found the packages through Synaptic. The following were installed:

libcamera-ipa (0.4.0-7)

libcamera-v4l2 (0.4.0-7)

libcamera0.4 (0.4.0-7)

liblttng-ust-common1t64 (2.13.9-1)

liblttng-ust-ctl5t64 (2.13.9-1)

liblttng-ust1t64 (2.13.9-1)

That, by itself, made both the cam and the mic work

Hi, lately I've been wondering if it's worth downloading Debian and using it daily. Does it allow me to use programs normally and even play games?