Everything worked great, but I had to find a fix for the screen tearing issue of my GPU. I did find the fix (manually create and edit the /X11/xorg.conf file to specify display parameters (I'm using a UHD display over displayport, perhaps that could have caused an issue). But before I found the fix, I tried all sorts of stupid crap and ended up breaking Debian. But, lesson learned, and today I'm doing a fresh install.
BUT...
I followed exactly the same installation procedure I did yesterday, but for some weird reason when I first boot from the fresh installation, the login screen shows my REAL name in stead of the username and it doesn't accept my password. I have taken keyboard settings into account (I'm from Belgium) trying to type in Qwerty in stead of Azerty (which was used to create the PW).
BUT... as I'm writing this, I finally managed to login
This *seems* to be the fix: in Debian Live, before installing Debian to your boot device, you have to set the keyboard layout to correspond to the one you're going to use in the installer. In the installer itself you then apply the same keyboard layout.
Then, if you boot, there shouldn't be an issue with the password. Then, first time in Debian, you should AGAIN re-set the keyboard layout once again.
This is really weird.
I'm not even sure if I fixed it... because when I run a sudo command in Konsole, it prompts the following message:
So yeah... this is different from yesterday's install and I don't know why because I'm using EXACTLY the same USB stick to boot into Live as yesterday. I mean... I have no idea what sorcery this is.We trust you have received the susual lecture from the local system Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
- respect privacy
- think before you type
- with great power comes great responsibility
So I don't really know if I can trust the install I currently have... should I perhaps use a different USB stick, download the .iso again and try it again?
The whole reason why I'm re-installing Debian is so that I can be confident that all my packages are stable and not corrupt... I want to have a stable system. This is going to be my editing workhorse and I'm done with Windows 10. But I'll be using it professionally, deadlines are holy, so stability is paramount.
Anyway, hi, I'm Wouter, nice to meet you all and to become a part of this