I am using debian 10 for 5 days now and these are some points I noted.
- installer is good and easy
- no splash screen
- too many pre install games
- synaptic package manager not supported
- not using swap partition be default. I had to force it to use
- software center had nothing to show, I had to reinstall . now its showing softwares
- dont have wide range of softwares.
- after installing chromium ( I use chormium on linux instead of chrome) chromium took 500 to 700mb memory
- sometimes debian became laggy (for 2,3 minutes) this is maybe because I have a slwo HDD.
- unable to install openjdk and other packages from ppa repository( may be because buster is new and ppa has no support. I don't know)
So far I like this new Buster. old users or those who know linux more. if there is a mistake on my end. kindly notify. there is a need to learn more.
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Debian 10, epxerience so far
Re: Debian 10, epxerience so far
Set up Plymouth.markjacob wrote:- no splash screen
https://wiki.debian.org/plymouth
Disk space is cheap?- too many pre install games
I wouldn’t recommend using synaptic even if it was. The gnome packagekit based tool is better for simply installing apps. Apt from the command line is better in general.- synaptic package manager not supported
Would have to fire up a vm to confirm, but I am going to doubt this is the case for most installs. More information needed.- not using swap partition be default. I had to force it to use
It may have just been indexing/refreshing.- software center had nothing to show, I had to reinstall . now its showing softwares
I beg to differ. You can use any software available on Linux in general as well as windows software through wine.- dont have wide range of softwares.
Disk space is cheap. If you mean “ram” yeah this isn’t unusual. Facebook uses 1gb of ram all to itself on most browsers.- after installing chromium ( I use chormium on linux instead of chrome) chromium took 500 to 700mb memory
This is a criticism I have on Linux is weak I/o interactivity. You might try the mq-bfq scheduler. Google info about it as it’s probably complicated to switch it as default.- sometimes debian became laggy (for 2,3 minutes) this is maybe because I have a slwo HDD.
You don’t want to be adding any repositories at all ever unless you trust the maintainer and they are specifically designed to work with Debian. Ubuntu packages are not compatible. The correct way is to find a package for Debian or rebuild the package to work with Debian.- unable to install openjdk and other packages from ppa repository( may be because buster is new and ppa has no support. I don't know)
We would be happy to help.So far I like this new Buster. old users or those who know linux more. if there is a mistake on my end. kindly notify. there is a need to learn more.
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While trying to be as nice as possible some of this may come off as me being a **** but it is not my intention
All of these were basically something you did on your own or didn't bother to research installing Debian the way you expect it to be.
Always pays off to learn the expert install of anything and have more control over what happens.
see above post ... it is very simple to do I can confirm that much...have done it on several machines for friends or for myself- no splash screen
this is your own fault for letting the installer do so....there is always a minimal install to all the desktop environments very good idea to look this up.- too many pre install games
use apt instead.........or stop using gnome ........also there was a warning MONTHS before the release that this would happen in gnome and wayland...besides synaptic being well known for problems here and there over the years(there is a way to run gnome under X instead of wayland and be able to sue synaptic but I can't comment on that I don't use gnome and am not sure where to tell you to click to switch at the login screen)- synaptic package manager not supported
also your own fault for letting the installer just do whatever it felt or missed the option somehow like or you manually partitioned your drive and didn't do it properly(I can't be 100% sure with this since I always use the expert install and do such things myself).- not using swap partition be default. I had to force it to use
not sure where this came from- dont have wide range of softwares.
chrome based browsers are well known as ram hogs so there is no surprise here..firefox is a little heavy on ram also for me but doesn't seem to bog down my machine at all.- after installing chromium ( I use chormium on linux instead of chrome) chromium took 500 to 700mb memory
All of these were basically something you did on your own or didn't bother to research installing Debian the way you expect it to be.
Always pays off to learn the expert install of anything and have more control over what happens.
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Re: Debian 10, epxerience so far
Thanks theblueplll and vbrummond . I think I was too stupid to post this too early. I did some "more" research after this post.
chromium problem and lagging is my laptop problem. I am having hard time running windows too. I think my HDD going to die soon.
yes I read about it. removed it already.vbrummond wrote: I wouldn’t recommend using synaptic even if it was. The gnome packagekit based tool is better for simply installing apps. Apt from the command line is better in general.
this is what I learned after searching. not every thing is made for every distro. I even tried and built a nemo-dropbox extension.vbrummond wrote: You don’t want to be adding any repositories at all ever unless you trust the maintainer and they are specifically designed to work with Debian. Ubuntu packages are not compatible. The correct way is to find a package for Debian or rebuild the package to work with Debian.
chromium problem and lagging is my laptop problem. I am having hard time running windows too. I think my HDD going to die soon.
I really don't mind if I am learning something. .theblueplll wrote:While trying to be as nice as possible some of this may come off as me being a **** but it is not my intention.
Re: Debian 10, epxerience so far
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Re: Debian 10, epxerience so far
post of the yearcuckooflew wrote:Sounds like the blind leading the blind to me.
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^ Believe people mean Synaptic doesn't work under Wayland/XWayland(yet). Really don't know stopped using it and learned cli package management asap soon after starting with gnu/nix. 1gb-ram for Facebook?! By that you mean the whole browser + having Facebook open uses 1gb total(I hope). OP all browsers should be able to be tweaked to some extent. Life long Firefox user so may want to ask Google how to best get Chrome/based browsers to behave better.
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