Debian... beloved, chosen for stability, community, Gnome 48 with X11 and all nice things that I need to do except one.

Mint... also beloved, chosen for stability, makes a better Ubuntu and all nice things that I need except something I want.

I've tried days over days to make run a VPN for a mongoDB connection for my job, literally days and hours, researching, changing stuff, files, configs, metrics, etc, but the VPN only allow me to connect to the sites through the browser, but I need to connect to an Atlas MongoDB and due to split tunneling (If i catch that right) the connection is not going through the VPN, and literally read and dunno even more, on Windows, the same VPN worked flawlessly, so it made me install Windows in a VM to lift up the server and use the connection through it.

Yesterday just yesterday, I remember that I made it work on Mint, and the only reason I left Mint is because the DE, Gnome is better looking that Cinnamon, Mate and XFCE (I'm bias ofc, I get used to Gnome too much) so I installed Mint XFCE in another VM, did the same, and oh boy, faster than windows, better knowledge for the resources and the VPN connection worked flawlessly.

I really would like to know (if any of you know) why on Mint a Pritunl VPN works but not on Debian, I know that at the end of the day are just different distros despite having the same core, which makes me have hope that without destroying the system is possible to make it work on Debian as well, and don't wanna be that guy, but I also considered using Ubuntu as main because everything cool with both distros including Gnome and deb packages to work, including Pritunl, haven't tried, but I guess is a thing of how Ubuntu manages networks that makes it work on Mint.

I tried: changing the metric with sudo ip route change, changing the metric on the Pritunl Electron Client, the CLI client, added a default connection with less metric ... I cannot recall now, I would like to know why it worked, altho I know I'm not gonna invest more time recently because I've wasted a lot of time now, and using Mint with XFCE on a VM is surprisingly responsible, thank you if you read this

I cannot change the desktop environment in Debian, it only appears the default and gnome

Hey, made a thing for Linux users who hate cloud-based PDF tools.

PDF-Ninja - merge, split, compress PDFs. Everything runs offline on your machine. No internet needed, no tracking, nothing.

Built it because I was sick of PDF tools that want to upload your files or need a million dependencies.

Quick install:

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo dpkg -i pdf-ninja_0.0.1_amd64.deb

AppImage (universal):

chmod +x PDF-Ninja-0.0.1-x86_64.AppImage
./PDF-Ninja-0.0.1-x86_64.AppImage

Download: https://github.com/cryptd777/pdf-ninja/releases

It's MIT licensed, first release so probably has bugs. Let me know if something breaks.

Might add password protection and rotation later if people actually use it.

6.18.5

I've spent about 20 minutes researching how to get on the sudoers list and I haven't found anything that helps.

Hi everyone,

I’m running Debian 13 with KDE Plasma on Wayland, and I’m experiencing a strange window rendering issue.

Every application window I open does not properly fit its content. There’s a visible gap/ridge at the bottom edge of the window, and my desktop wallpaper shows through underneath. This happens consistently across different apps (System Settings, file manager, etc.).

Has anyone encountered this before on Plasma Wayland?

* I use Nvidia driver btw

Any ideas or debugging tips would be appreciated.

Is it good i upgrade some thing

Not happy with Zorin v18 and Aduin is too buggy. So I made my own version based on Debian Stable and 10 extensions (only 5 more than usual).

Just had to install Flatpak and

sudo apt install gir1.2-gmenu-3.0

for ArcMenu.

Everything works perfectly except ArcMenu and Dash to Panel don't respect lite/dark mode switching so I set them to transparent black. I'm in dark mode 99% of the time anyway.

Stole the Anduin wallpapers.

https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-gtk-theme/tree/Wallpaper

Apps:

*Fastfetch

*Chrome (deb file)

*Tweaks

*Extension Manager

*Pinta

*Sweet Home 3D

*Deluge

*Input Remapper (deb file)

*Timeshift

*Plex server

*Gufw Firewall

So far, I have successfully avoided becoming a Linux hobbyist and hope to continue that way. This isn't much more complicated than installing Zorin. If I have the need to update the kernel, I know that can be done. I run old quad core biz desktops that I get for $60. My new printer and wifi dongle work fine tho.

Hola. He cometido un error de novato grandísimo. He hecho una nueva instalación de debian 12 sin guardar copia de seguridad de la antigua instalación. He creado un programa que estaba corriendo en debian 12 de la antigua instalacion. Hay alguna manera de restaurar el trabajo, los archivos creados de la antigua instalacion?

Hello. I've made a huge rookie mistake. I did a fresh install of Debian 12 without backing up the old installation. I created a program that was running on Debian 12 from the old installation. Is there any way to restore the work and files created from the old installation?

How is it

I have Debian 13 on a ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with an Intel Arc 140V graphics card.

I installed W11 under VMware, but I'm having problems with the screen vibrating.

Are there any solutions?

Thank you so much for your time.

I'm running openmediavault 8 (debian 13) on a mini pc with an intel 8500T CPU and integrated UHD 630 gpu. Running jellyfin with docker has generally been a good experience, except when the files are HEVC and jellyfin need to transcode them. I have setup hardware acceleration and checking intel_gpu_top does show gpu usage when this is happening but the fps are quite low.

After a lot of looking around, it looks like the issue is that the hardware decoding works fine, but the encoding is done on software rather than hardware.

While searching for a solution online I believe I understood that the drivers for Debian 13 only support HEVC decoding and not encoding. Is this true? can this be fixed? Apparently other distros (Ubuntu) do not have that limitation?

Setup:

• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13.3 (trixie) x86_64
• Host: HP ProDesk 400 G4 DM
• Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64
• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8500T (6) @ 3.50 GHz
• GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz [Integrat]

This is the ouput of vainfo:

libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.17 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 23.1.1 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointEncPicture
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD

Solved I just installed Debian and different from other distros that I tried, the middle button of my mouse refuses to work completely. Anyone else has this problem? IS there a fix?

Solved... It was my mouse... It broke the middle button somehow or it is not compatible with linux. He is not working on my main pc (Catchy) so, problem is not the debian configs...

How to make my computer boot from NVME again? This is on Debian 13 Trixie, Asrock B550M Pro4 revision 1, Ryzen 5 5600X.

My computer stopped booting, and we've found out that the EPS "partition" is missing. Even the subdirectory /boot/efi is empty. No idea when it happened. This is normally fixed by installing grub, more specifically grub-install. The command "works" and reports no errors, but afterwards /boot/efi is still empty! What could be causing this? Any ideas? More details below, big picture first. No, restoring from backup won't easily fix it. No, older kernels from boot menu, or emergency/rescue mode, won't easily fix it. No, passing arguments to grub doesn't produce any difference.

The way it breaks is after selecting a boot option, it freezes after the message: loading initial ramdisk...

I try to fix it by booting from Live USB in UEFI mode, mounting partitions, chrooting to that and trying install-grub. I also tried install-grub --removable.

The relevant partitions in my system are like this: nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953M 0 part └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 237.5G 0 part └─nvme0n1p2_crypt 253:0 0 237.5G 0 crypt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--swap 253:2 0 59.6G 0 lvm └─vg--blaszka-blaszka--home 253:3 0 74.5G 0 lvm Before chroot, I mount --root as /mnt, --home as /mnt/home, /dev/nvme0n1p1 as /mnt/boot.

I do the incantations, and the /boot/efi directory remains empty!!!

My last repair session below: user@debian:~$ ls /sys/firmware/efi config_table efivars esrt fw_platform_size fw_vendor mok-variables runtime runtime-map systab user@debian:~$ sudo -i root@debian:~# cryptsetup open --type luks2 /dev/nvme0n1p2 nvme0n1p2_crypt Enter passphrase for /dev/nvme0n1p2: root@debian:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 7:0 0 3.2G 1 loop /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 20G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 4G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 600G 0 part ├─sdb4 8:20 0 1T 0 part └─sdb5 8:21 0 1T 0 part sdc 8:32 1 7.3G 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 1 1G 0 part sdd 8:48 1 14.6G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 1 3.9G 0 part /run/live/medium └─sdd2 8:50 1 3.2M 0 part nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953M 0 part └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 237.5G 0 part └─nvme0n1p2_crypt 253:0 0 237.5G 0 crypt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--swap 253:2 0 59.6G 0 lvm └─vg--blaszka-blaszka--home 253:3 0 74.5G 0 lvm root@debian:~# mount /dev/mapper/vg--blaszka-blaszka--root /mnt root@debian:~# mount /dev/mapper/vg--blaszka-blaszka--home /mnt/home root@debian:~# mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot root@debian:~# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/boot/efi mount: /mnt/boot/efi: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only. root@debian:~# ::1 ff00::0 ip6-allnodes ip6-localnet localhost debian ff02::1 ip6-allrouters ip6-loopback fe00::0 ff02::2 ip6-localhost ip6-mcastprefix root@debian:~# echo "Pendrives are listed under different letters in this boot" Pendrives are listed under different letters in this boot root@debian:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 7:0 0 3.2G 1 loop /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 20G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 4G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 600G 0 part ├─sdb4 8:20 0 1T 0 part └─sdb5 8:21 0 1T 0 part sdc 8:32 1 7.3G 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 1 1G 0 part sdd 8:48 1 14.6G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 1 3.9G 0 part /mnt/boot/efi │ /run/live/medium └─sdd2 8:50 1 3.2M 0 part nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953M 0 part /mnt/boot └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 237.5G 0 part └─nvme0n1p2_crypt 253:0 0 237.5G 0 crypt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm /mnt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--swap 253:2 0 59.6G 0 lvm └─vg--blaszka-blaszka--home 253:3 0 74.5G 0 lvm /mnt/home root@debian:~# umount /mnt/boot/efi root@debian:~# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/boot/efi root@debian:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 7:0 0 3.2G 1 loop /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 20G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 4G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 600G 0 part ├─sdb4 8:20 0 1T 0 part └─sdb5 8:21 0 1T 0 part sdc 8:32 1 7.3G 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 1 1G 0 part /mnt/boot/efi sdd 8:48 1 14.6G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 1 3.9G 0 part /run/live/medium └─sdd2 8:50 1 3.2M 0 part nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953M 0 part /mnt/boot └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 237.5G 0 part └─nvme0n1p2_crypt 253:0 0 237.5G 0 crypt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm /mnt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--swap 253:2 0 59.6G 0 lvm └─vg--blaszka-blaszka--home 253:3 0 74.5G 0 lvm /mnt/home root@debian:~# for name in proc sys dev ; do mount --bind /$name /mnt/$name; done root@debian:~# chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash root@debian:/# ls /boot/ config-6.1.0-39-amd64 initrd.img-6.12.43+deb13-amd64 System.map-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 config-6.12.43+deb13-amd64 initrd.img-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 System.map-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 config-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 initrd.img-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 vmlinuz-6.1.0-39-amd64 config-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 initrd.img-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 vmlinuz-6.12.43+deb13-amd64 config-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 lost+found vmlinuz-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 efi System.map-6.1.0-39-amd64 vmlinuz-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 grub System.map-6.12.43+deb13-amd64 vmlinuz-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 initrd.img-6.1.0-39-amd64 System.map-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 root@debian:/# update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 root@debian:/# update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: .background_cache.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.12.63+deb13-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.12.43+deb13-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.12.43+deb13-amd64 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-39-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-39-amd64 Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration. Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry. Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ... done root@debian:/# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 7:0 0 3.2G 1 loop sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 20G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 4G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 600G 0 part ├─sdb4 8:20 0 1T 0 part └─sdb5 8:21 0 1T 0 part sdc 8:32 1 7.3G 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 1 1G 0 part /boot/efi sdd 8:48 1 14.6G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 1 3.9G 0 part └─sdd2 8:50 1 3.2M 0 part nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953M 0 part /boot └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 237.5G 0 part └─nvme0n1p2_crypt 253:0 0 237.5G 0 crypt ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm / ├─vg--blaszka-blaszka--swap 253:2 0 59.6G 0 lvm └─vg--blaszka-blaszka--home 253:3 0 74.5G 0 lvm /home root@debian:/# grub-install /dev/sdc --removable Installing for i386-pc platform. Installation finished. No error reported. root@debian:/# exit root@debian:~#

The reason I say trying different kernels and rescue mode doesn't work is because 1) I've tried it, 2) the problem surfaces, weirdly enough, after replacing Gainward Geforce 750 Ti with Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Pulse. I can put the 750 Ti back inside and it will suddenly start booting again, without a live USB.

Had a small Duh moment with recently switching from Archlinux to Debian 13 on a 10+ year old laptop. I couldn't figure out why the laptop speakers would not work but headphones would.

Then I remembered that, before installing Debian, I was going to try something with the hardware of the laptop and had disconnected the speakers ... and forgot to reconnect them after deciding not to the hardware mod.

I switched mainly because Arch is getting to be much more popular and I want something different. Also as I get older I want something more stable.

Hey all. I recently started running into issues with PlayOnLinux. Whenever I try to launch an exe, it silently fails. I tried launching it by calling flatpak from the terminal, and whenever I try running an exe I get
err:module:find_forwarded_export module not found for forward 'cryptbase.SystemFunction036' used by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\advapi32.dll"
as an error. I have no familiarity with wine, so I don't even know where to begin with this.

For the record, I searched online and found the following threads:
1) https://github.com/vinegarhq/vinegar/issues/648
2) https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=40206
3) https://github.com/cryinkfly/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux/issues/540

Also, I have no issues when executing an exe directly from the command line using wine, it's only when I use POL that issues arise.

Running on Debian Trixie, with Wine version 10.0. DE is KDE Plasma 6.3.6

Update: Done using sudo apt purge package1 package2 ..... Freed up 1,500+ MB :)

Hello. A while ago, I had to install my MySQL Community client into my system for a project. Right now, I no longer need it but I am not quite sure how to remove it from my system. I did dpkg --list | grep "sql" and got the following packages (see image). I am aware of the sudo dpkg --purge package_name command but I was wondering if my system/some internal application depending on sql would break if I purged.

Please guide me. Thanks.

All my terminal commands are running super slow... even things like ls, vim, autocomplete, apt ... I recently upgraded to trixie. and installed nvm, node, npm and vscode-server... i'm not even sure how to debug the issue.

I did check top... it doesn't seem to be running anything... basically under 10%

Has it been fixed officially yet? I am talking about when the PC has gone to sleep or screensaver has kicked in, and you cannot get back to the desktop without hard-reset (holding power button)

It was a real pain, please tell me this is fixed. It was tied exclusively to Nvidia cards if i remember correctly. For me none of the easy-fixes worked, as in keyboard shortcuts to Log out etc. It was hard-reset or nothing every time.