They could be, but 2M new Brazilian users after Twitter’s block there actually seems quite low and definitely credible.
They could be, but 2M new Brazilian users after Twitter’s block there actually seems quite low and definitely credible.
On iOS I’ve been using Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
by developer And a Dinosaur. It doesn’t replace YouTube as a whole - only the video player. Better interface, no ads.
FUD wars on Free and Open Source Software, shady deals with companies and governments to make them dependent on MS software and solutions, holding the web hostage to IE “standards”, …
Could you provide a source for this claim? Not doubting you but I haven’t seen it.
The main “instability” I’ve found with testing
or sid
is just that because new packages are added quickly, sometimes you’ll have dependency clashes.
Pretty much every time the package manager will take care of keeping things sane and not upgrading a package that will cause any incompatibility.
The main issue is if at some point you decide to install something that has conflicting dependencies with something you already have installed. Those are usually solvable with a little aptitude
-fu as long as there are versions available to sort things out neatly.
A better first step to newer packages is probably stable
with backports
though.
Not much use to go Ubuntu or Mint, unless you have specific issues with Debian that don’t happen with those. Even then, it may be one apt install
away from a fix.
If you want to try out BSD, power to you. I wouldn’t experiment on a backup computer though, unless by backup you just mean you want to have the spare hardware and will format it with Debian if you ever need to make it your main computer anyway.
Otherwise, just run Debian!
Founding member of company that stands to make fortunes through a product endorses said product.
Instead of being a dick about it, why don’t you show what they’re doing and why you don’t like it, so we can all be educated and/or have a conversation about it, so everyone can decide for themselves if it’s a problem for them?
They’re also prioritising a few great and much needed QoL improvements like vertical tabs, tab grouping and a new Profile Management system!
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-on-in-firefox/
Stability is no longer an advantage when you are cherry picking from Sid lol.
This makes no sense. When 95% of the system is based on Debian stable
, you get pretty much full stability of the base OS. All you need to pull in from the other releases is Mesa and related packages.
Perhaps the kernel as well, but I suspect they’re compiling their own with relevant parameters and features for the SD anyway, so not even that.
Why would they manually package them? Just grab the packages you need from testing
or sid
. This way you keep the solid Debian stable
base OS and still bring in the latest and greatest of the things that matter for gaming.
I’ve been running a 7900XTX for months without issue. Only thing that was missing was some stuff around power setting, fan curve etc but even that I think has been fixed in recent kernels.
Run sudo dmesg | grep amdgpu
and look for errors.
You may have a firmware file missing, for instance. If that’s the case, it’s an easy fix - just download the firmware files from the kernel tree and put them wherever your system wants them.
This is how I do it on Debian but it should be easy enough to adapt to whatever distribution you’re using (it might be exactly the same tbh): https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming#firmware
Circa 1993, at the age of 13. Took me weeks to download Slackware from BBSs and get it installed. Played around with Mandrake (got an installer CD on an event). Eventually settled on Debian (which took me another few weeks to download, then burn the CDs and install it).
Used Debian on all my computers for many many years. Eventually got a MacBook (around 2005 IIRC) and have been on Mac laptops since. My gaming desktop runs Debian (wrote a blog post about my setup recently: https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming). My servers, VMs and containers are usually Debian or something directly based on it (Devuan on some containers, Proxmox on my homelab’s bare metal).
I’ve used many other distros along the way, either for work or to experiment. I have huge respect for Fedora on a technical level but still prefer Debian’s philosophy and the apt
ecosystem.
Same. Git GUIs can be great for examining commit trees, visualising patches, etc. For any write operations (this includes things like fecth
and pull
which write to .git
), it’s all in the shell.
I second Debian. Stable is excellent.
Testing has newer packages and is generally almost as stable.
I published my Debian gaming setup a few days ago. Haven’t tried VR on it either as I don’t have a headset, but I assume it works.
No worries! I also posted the blog on this community (https://lemmy.world/post/9543661) and someone mentioned in the comments they’re running Debian stable for gaming.
That can also be an option if you’d like to avoid testing for the minute, though I’m not sure what pitfalls that setup might have.
Good luck on your journey!
Hey, I appreciate your warning.
For a bit of context, I have been a Debian user for almost 30 years now. Mostly using testing
for desktop / workstation systems, and stable
on servers and containers. Debian is comfortable and provides me with stability where I need and cutting-edge where I want. It mostly “just works” with great defaults for everything, and it’s easy to customise where I desire.
With that out of the way: you’re not wrong. In fact, the testing
FAQ describes situations where these kinds of breakages could happen.
That said, this is exceedingly rare if not nearly unheard of, and I can always pull packages from sid
or experimental
if I need (like I do Mesa).
Edit to add: for anyone interested in trying out Debian testing
, please check out the Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
Edit 2: I have published a blog post describing my setup if you’re interested: https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming
If you’re talking about CrowdStrike, I’d call it part of the malware infrastructure.
From the perspective of the OP’s point though, it is a good argument since it capitalises on the panic described.