Switching from Microsoft Windows to Linux is one of the best decision I ever made.
Thank you to the thousands of Debian volunteers. You are amazing people ❤️
i know people usually are like, “oh cool new features”
but this has a security patch that will literally unblock my pipelines at work lol 🎉
Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?
i don’t know the full nature of the exploit, but
zlibhas an exploitable integer overflow via the MiniZip project. even though our images don’t use that project.
Sorry, but 403GB?
That’s a lot of space for an OS, isn’t it?
10 GB storage for default installation, 4 GB storage for commandline-only installation, 403 GB storage if you install every Debian package under the sun.
Ahhhhh, ok.
Wild… I think I might try to get my OS that big one day just for kicks
That threw me for a second too. I thought “that’s a bit of a leap”. Like others said, it’s everything, not just the recommended packages.
I just looked, 11G on my laptop’s /
Standard productivity stuff, I think the only extra thing is a flatpack of google earth which is 1.5G
Yeah and I know one of my laptops only has a 250GB drive.
I thought it was a typo at first, but it was explained. I get it now :)
Been running SID forever on my servers. Thank you Debian for being my rock.
Hell yeah, i love Debian, its such a Great and Powerful OS.
Great and Powerful OS.
loved this
Debian is my favorite distro. I’ve used it for years.
Noob here. My last distro was Zorin (which I liked well enough). Keen to switch to Debian base. Should I jump in and install vanilla Debian or wait for Mint Debian 7? Or should I believe the DistroWatch hype and go for MX?
Would prefer Xfce environment because I’ll be running it on 8+ yo laptop and and desktop.
Get base Debian, you’ll have more options for desktop environment. Once you get past the installation hassle it should just work for the rest of times. MX has its place but it’s specifically made to have no systemd which may not be something a new user is looking for. It feels very opinionated, is what I’m trying to say. May be your thing of course, but I’d recommend reading more on its philosophy before picking.
8 years is probably not old enough to require lighter desktops if the machines were at least mid range at the time. You should be able to use gnome or KDE as you please. Nothing against XFCE in principle, but it can be a little clunky especially for a laptop. No touch gestures, for example.
tnx for the reply
You could have a look at MX Linux.
If you’re a noob, what made you go with Debian in the first place?
I want to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with that, just not the usual path for a new Linux user.
I liked Zorin (often recommended for users coming from Windows) which is based off Ubuntu which in turn is based off Debian. Not a fan of Snaps, though. I also value stability over blistering performance and bleeding edge features.
Not a fan of Snaps, though.
I’m the same and decided to give Tuxedo Linux a try. So far I really like it.
Tuxedo looks interesting, tnx
Debian is releasing a Trixie Mattel edition? Is it all pink? How fun!
You mean Tracey Martell? 🤭
Yes, the Tracey Special Edition, with glitter included.
Trixie from Toy Story. Debian’s releases are always toy story characters
I was thinking of a Trixie from Hasbro
Update day! YES!
Much love for Debian, favorite distro for servers. Any thoughts on running it as a desktop GUI?
I’ve been running unstable for a couple decades now as my desktop. I’ve occasionally taken months-long forays into other distros, but always come back to Debian. It just works, which is what I care about.
I have many times. apt install whatever desktop environment you want is usually a one-liner, and they are the un-modified stock versions, not themed to whatever fancies the distro maintainer. It has been my low-effort distro for a lot of years for any purpose. Packages are on the stale-side, so you might want to use different package container types for your preferred applications nowadays.
It works great with Plasma desktop
It works well, so long as you don’t mind your DE being a bit behind the latest version. With how much Plasma and Gnome have been improving in the past couple of years, that may matter a lot.
To be honest, I think it makes more sense than it used to. You can have an extremely stable base, and if you want regularly updated user apps you can utilise Flatpaks.
It’s great. Not much else to say. You install it, it works, it doesn’t stop working unless you break it. I run Debian 12 on my laptop.
Looove me some Debian!
Like a lot of other people here I only use Debian for servers. However i recently (couple of months ago) spun up PikaOS (gaming oriented OS) that is based om Debiam Testing but have applied the patches from CachyOS and Nobara. Its a been a pleasure to use so far and hope to see ots community grow.
I’m waiting to more feedbacks and I will try it after
