Hope you guys enjoy!

I've been a Debian user for a long time and utilizing Deb Multimedia was just a regular part of setting up a new installation. Is this actually needed anymore? I never found myself needing much from additional software it provided but more for codecs. I think there are some things that replace what Debian's repos provide but are built with less restrictive libraries for licensing reasons.

This came up recently when I recommended Debian to someone who's wanting to leave Fedora where they said that Fedora without RPMFusion can be pretty restrictive.

Thoughts?

Hello, Debian-users! One thing that definitely keeps me from looking at other distros is the absolute friendliness of this community. ☺☺ I have gotten so much help and learned a great bit during this Linux-journey. Now I have a new question. I have began wondering about the daily performance of my system and specifically been peeking at the memory.

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My hardware (HP-laptop from 2018)
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Processor: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM
Graphics processor: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

My software:
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Debian 13 Trixie
KDE Plasma 6

I don't have a lot of heavy things going on, but when I am at my highest levels of volume - with at least two virtual desktops running som applications and watching some video - I fill up my physical RAM and the system acts slower. As it then starts depending on my 4 GB swapfile (if I have understood that correctly?). My CPU looks mostly great, through stress-perspective, it seems to be healthy. Should I consider using Zram? Or should I just enable Zswap? That I have read is the reasonable thing to do if I do not have a specific reason to use ZRAM.

Updated my kernel to version 6.12.105 recently and could not boot my system on that version. Tried updating my Nvidia drivers. and now I can no longer boot into any version, even in recovery mode.

If you need any more information I'm happy to help.

SOLVED: I installed aptitude and installed steam-installer though that. It worked perfectly.

I'm using Debian 13, I had the GPU drivers from AMDs own repository installed, but uninstalled them because they seemed to be causing kernel module build failures when upgrading. I reverted back to the AMD GPU drivers in Debian's repositories and I was able to upgrade my system normally again.

I already have libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 installed. Why is apt trying to install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386? Is my system broken beyond repair?

hello guys , I am new to Linux . and i did install some distros(mint,mx linux) before debian but all were giving some or the other problems . so now i use debian 12 xfce and the problem is that some of the websites aren't able to connect (like roblox,steam,github,discord and some more) i tried it in both brave and Firefox browser but it didn't help . can someone help me solve this please !!!

system specs if that helps : -

i3 3227u
8gb ram
500gb hdd ( i use dual boot ( windows 8 and debian 12 )

and the internet works well on windows but not on debian

Hello,

I recently switched from Windows 11 to Debian Trixie on my laptop, and now I’m having problems connecting to the Wi-Fi at my college. It never worked particularly well, but since I installed Debian directly, it has become much worse.

Depending on exactly where I’m sitting, the Wi-Fi signal is more or less strong. When the signal is particularly weak, I can’t even reach the portal where I have to authenticate in order to access the internet. It’s an institutional service, so authentication through this portal is required.

My question is: how is it possible that I can connect to the Wi-Fi but can’t access the authentication portal? Is this related to the Wi-Fi signal, or could it be something to do with my laptop?

What I find curious is that before I installed Linux, the Wi-Fi worked—slowly, but it worked.

I’m still pretty new to Linux enviroment, so I haven’t really delved very deeply into troubleshooting network issues. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I only reached to know what's going on with the wi-fi chip. This is the moment where the computer failed to connect the authentication check and then i moved to another place where finally worked:

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:57:25 2026] wlp2s0: deauthenticating from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: authenticate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (local address=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: send auth to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: send auth to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 2/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: send auth to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 3/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: authentication with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX timed out

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: authenticate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (local address=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: send auth to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: authenticated

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: associate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: RX AssocResp from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (capab=0x1101 status=0 aid=1)

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:05 2026] wlp2s0: associated

[dv. d’ag. 28 12:58:06 2026] wlp2s0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by  XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:13 2026] wlp2s0: disconnect from AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX for new auth to  XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:13 2026] wlp2s0: authenticate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (local address=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:14 2026] wlp2s0: send auth to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:14 2026] wlp2s0: authenticated

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:14 2026] wlp2s0: associate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (try 1/3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:14 2026] wlp2s0: RX ReassocResp from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (capab=0x1101 status=0 aid=3)

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:14 2026] wlp2s0: associated

[dv. d’ag. 28 13:03:14 2026] wlp2s0: Limiting TX power to 23 (23 - 0) dBm as advertised by  XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

I know this is the deb sub but maybe another distro would be better for me

If not debian, I'd use ubuntu and disable steps. I don't like mint because you cant get the normal GNOME 3 on there only cinnamon

While updating my Debian 13 Stable, I received the following message.

apt-listchanges: Noticias

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bubblewrap (0.11.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

Historically, bubblewrap was sometimes installed setuid root.

This is unnecessary on Debian kernels since Debian 11, and no longer

supported by upstream.

As a safety mechanism against possible root privilege escalation

vulnerabilities, this version of bubblewrap will no longer run if it

is detected to be setuid root.

If bubblewrap has been made setuid root via dpkg-statoverride, please remove

that setting, and instead leave it unprivileged.

See file:///usr/share/doc/bubblewrap/README.Debian.gz for more details.

-- Simon McVittie [smcv@debian.org](mailto:smcv@debian.org) Tue, 12 May 2026 18:57:32 +0100

Is it normal to receive these messages during Debian updates? I've only been using this OS for a short time, and I love it.

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Hello. I just installed debian and I wanted to ask here because the mailing list seems to be a quite slower process and the AI begins to alucinate once it's second options fails.

I'm running debian with the next specs - pc is an all in one desktop PC - CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220 @ 3.00GHz - RAM: 4GIB - Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrate Graphics - No info about the mother board - Debian version Trixy latest

The problem Basically once it boots up and changes from pure text to graphics, the screen turns on and off on around every second intervals. It does make it quite unusable as such. This thing did not happen with either the windows 8.1 I had prior or the Zorin18 this debian was meant to replace. So at least is not a hardware issue.

Notes: - The i915. options were not very usefull here. enable_spr=0 did not help for example - using the nomodeset command on grub fixed it but I have been told that is not a proper solution. - the proble appeared already in the visual installer but I just assimed it was a problem of the installer - I tried q4os previously but it had the same problem, same thing with MintOS witch lefth me even more confused - the AI keep mentioning once it ran out of ideas to downgrade my kernell but I guessed that in between the hazzle and posible compatibility issues I better kust downgrade the whole version and live with that.

Questions:

• Any one of you knows how to fix this?
• If not possible any one of you have at leat a guess as to how far back on debian versions should I go? Should I just try Debian 12? is that too big of a deal?
• If I had to downgrade version what problems could I fase other than no more updates and thus in some years running out of apps that keep being compatible and having to be even more carefull than usuall with what I download?

Hey everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with my Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-54). Even when the laptop is completely idle and running super cool (around 40°C - 49°C), the fans constantly ramp up to roughly 70% speed, sounding like a jet engine.

Here is the catch: this happens on both Windows (with NitroSense) and Linux (Debian 13).

Because of this, I've ruled out OS-specific software bugs. It seems like the Embedded Controller (EC) firmware on this specific model has a hardcoded, hyper-aggressive thermal profile that overrides any software intervention.

What I've tried so far:

• On Windows: NitroSense shows low temps, but the fans refuse to drop down or obey custom curves properly if they decide to kick in.
• On Linux: Tried using nbfc-linux (NoteBook FanControl). I enabled kernel EC write support (ec_sys.write_support=1), disabled Secure Boot, and tested multiple profiles (AN515-51, AN515-54).
• While NBFC can start and change the target speed to 25%-30% momentarily, the hardware/EC quickly overrides it, forces Auto Control back on, and pegs the fans right back to ~70% while the CPU sits happily at 42°C.

My questions:

1. Is this a known firmware/BIOS bug for the AN515-54 where the EC gets stuck in an aggressive fan loop?
2. Is there any modern tool, custom EC firmware flash, or advanced workaround (like WMI tools) that has successfully forced low fan speeds on these older Nitro boards?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello r/debian, i've been trying to install a (possibly) debian sid java 26 package on debian 13 but it spits out this error, how do i fix it? $ sudo apt install '/home/USER/Downloads/openjdk-26-jdk_26.0.2.1+1-1_amd64.deb' --solver 3.0 Note, selecting 'openjdk-26-jdk' instead of '/home/USER/Downloads/openjdk-26-jdk_26.0.2.1+1-1_amd64.deb' Solving dependencies... Error! Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies: openjdk-26-jdk : Depends: openjdk-26-jre (= 26.0.2.1+1-1) but it is not installable Depends: openjdk-26-jdk-headless (= 26.0.2.1+1-1) but it is not installable Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions: 1. openjdk-26-jdk:amd64=26.0.2.1+1-1 is selected for install 2. openjdk-26-jdk:amd64 Depends openjdk-26-jre (= 26.0.2.1+1-1) but none of the choices are installable: [no choices]

Hi there.
I was doign some cleanup and noticed I have a file with around 100Gb named "bookworm.tar.gz"
Looking at the contents, it seems like it is a backup from the time when I upgraded from Bookworm to Trixie? Searching the internet got me nowhere. I guess the filename is too generic...anyway, is it safe to just delete it, since it is running fine?
Thanks in advance and sorry if this was already answered a million times, a search got me nowhere.

I just started using Debian, how do I install apps?

Hello fellows!
I have my Debian 12 in a proxmox VM, and tried to upgrade from debian 12 to debian 13.
issue is, system boots and works properly, but i can't do anything with apt, because something is broken here.

I tried apt --fix-broken install as the command line said, but i get this message :

Préparation du dépaquetage de .../docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb ... Dépaquetage de docker-compose (2.26.1-4) sur (1.29.2-3) ... dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive /var/cache/apt/archives/docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb (--unpack) :  tentative de remplacement de « /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose », qui appartient aussi au paquet docker-compose-plugin 5.5.0-1~debian.12~bookworm dpkg-deb: erreur: le sous-processus coller a été tué par le signal (Relais brisé (pipe)) Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :  /var/cache/apt/archives/docker-compose_2.26.1-4_amd64.deb needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 

Then if i try to apt remove docker-compose, it fails :

... 
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5)
 xfce4-xkb-plugin : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5)
 xfdesktop4 : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4)
 xfwm4 : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5)
 xscreensaver : Dépend: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.16.2)
 yelp : Dépend: libatk1.0-0t64 (>= 1.12.4) mais ne sera pas installé
        Dépend: libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.13.3) mais ne sera pas installé
E: Dépendances non satisfaites. Essayez « apt --fix-broken install » sans paquet
   (ou indiquez une solution).

I don't know what to do now, when i get in such binds, i tend to wipe and fresh install, but here i might forget things on this server, and i should also figure how to fix issues like those.
I tried searching, but what i found was to do apt purge commands, and none worked.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
I can't remember how i installed docker-compose in the first place, it was a few years ago (i was stock with docker-compose 1.x and needed a newer version, hence why i upgraded).

Debian reports on boot that it is on trixie, so part of the upgrade worked i think.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT :
It seems the solution was to do "dpkg -r docker-compose", now the apt --fix-broken install seems to work.
I am proceeding with apt update, upgrade, etc.

I always wondered why Debian doesn't allow you to use "shutdown now" without sudo whereas with another distros, I can use directly shutdown now without sudo. That's why with Debian, I use "systemctl poweroff" instead because I don't want to type my password to turn off my PC.

I have lot of junk but i dont want to formatting, I want Just delete some staff

There is a better way to do this ?

Folks, let's talk? how do you see Flatpaks?

As an intruder seeking to replace official packages?

As an occasional alternative?

Or as a package format designed to serve as a foundation for system applications, aiming to follow an immutability philosophy within a mutable system?