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My situation is a bit weird. I originally installed the first iteration of SpiralLinux, which is a live spin of Debian with a Calamares installer. I...

I've had privacy issues with KDE. I have to AL --> places ---> frequently used --> forget all, used constantly. Then, an app called 'bleachbit' in...

Hello.

I use Debian 12.8.0.

I wish to disable autofocus on Logitech C270 webcam, but v4l2-ctl does not show the autofocus option:

v4l2-ctl -l -d...

I have a clean install of Debian with the testing repo added to my apt sources.list.

My microphone is not recognized in the default gnome sound...

I use Bitwarden for my passwords. I've been considering moving to KeepassXC becuse I could use a key file and really lock down the database. But I've...

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Hello,

I just switched from Ubuntu Studio to Debian 12. I used the weekly Netinstall with gnome-core as a Desktop Environment....

When I do
df -h
It should shows the drives as /dev/mapper/disk1 /dev/mapper/disk2 etc but it is showing them as /dev/dm-1 /dev/dm-2

It only started...

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I am new to this forum. Sorry if I posted my issue wrong.

I am using Mint 20.1. I have issue with color depth on my 10.1 inch lcd at 12800x800...

My knowledge level: just (barely)above the beginner level (so please be patient if I do not understand something).
Thank you for patience with me....

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I was on stable and just upgraded to testing version, everything has been OK but after reboot I lost my DE, now I boot and I got tty mode. BTW...

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I tried to get ungoogle-chromium, with the information from Debian: it says that to install the package you have to run apt install...

Hello, I run a smartctl command to check my ssd health but I am not sure if it's healthy, the result is passed but there are two errors there:
$...

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I installed the system yesterday, these are the repos I have, apparently they are not complete because I can't install some packages like tcl,...

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I'm trying to move from LMDE to pure Debian with Cinnamon and I encounter some issues.

One of the issues is that system asks for root password...

I saw a post about updating to Debian 12.9 -- and my reaction was, more or less, What?! There's already a point release? because I just installed...

Hi everyone,

First of all, sorry for my English because I am not a native speaker.

I recently migrated from Windows to Linux but I have always had...

Dear community,

I have been living dangerously by running Debian on a Asus AMD/NVIDIA laptop for about a year now. Dangerously because this system...

Is there any way to safeguard against low level malware such as a BIOS with backdoors?

Inspired by a chat I had with another Developer and most recently Trihexagonal's post:

What I could do with a Tandy TRS-80 I saw for sale at...

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you for accepting my account to join the community. I’m looking forward to all I can learn through it. I use...

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Today I just did an update as usual, and the backports kernel got upgraded from 6.11.10 to 6.12.9.
Now Debian won't boot and will show the...

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Hey,

I used Ubuntu a few years ago and remember that for installing almost any software, my go to was to just put
sudo apt-get install *software*...

I've (earlier this week) switched from Kubuntu 22.04.5 to Debian 12.8 KDE. I'm running a Gigabyte 97 series MB, FX8350 (8 cores, 4.1 GHz), 32 GB RAM,...

How do you install apps that you downloaded?

I downloaded LibreOffice that is a deb into a folder in my second hard drive.
Here the link;

I tried...

I resize the active window by the following simplified script:
window_id=$(xdotool getactivewindow)
new_width=100
new_height=100
xdotool windowsize...

Hello out there, Im struggling on an issue with my Nvidia grafix driver. Maybe it's wine. I installed recently Baldur's Gate III on my System (Debian...

Hello everyone,

I’m new to this forum and also relatively new to Linux and Debian. I switched to Linux (Debian 12) about a year ago. However, I’ve...

I found this guide that explains how to disable dithering in order to reduce eye strain:

Now the problem is that it requires command aticonfig...

I'm using Debian testing and my sound/mic has began to act weird recently. The most notable issue being that I can't use my mic anymore: it's not...

On a Debian 12 installation with Plasma desktop, I'm having a weird problem copying files to USB flash drives. Copying a 1GB file it should take a...

Which distro for daily-use main computer? Says,

Debian 12 (many selectable desktops, which one is good?)
Ubuntu LTS 24.04
other deb based Linuxs...

Hi all!

I'm trying to set up Debian 12 with KDE on desktop with Secure Boot enabled. My hardware:

B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2
Ryzen 7 5800X
NVIDIA...

My Linux servers do have small hard disks, I can not create an archive there.
Is there a way to zip while doing a scp from a Windows system?
Please...

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I'm trying to get a HP Thunderbolt 4 docking station working on a HP laptop. The ultimate goal is to get two external monitors on display...

Linux version 6.1.0-28-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc-12 (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP...

Hello all. First, a quick introduction:

I'm not new here, just a new name. Have frequented this place for many years before, but an issue arose that...

I'm running Debian Unstable and yesterday I saw a message popup when I was updating the system that I need to migrate the apt sources one liners to...

Hi. I can't update today. If use apt update && apt full-upgrade in terminal i have:
(ENG: Notice: Missing Signed-By field in sources.list(5) entry...

I have my home theater PC connected to the TV via HDMI through an audio receiver. Everything works fine at 4K (3840x2160) at 120Hz (119.88Hz) except...

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The user does not appear in the login (lightdm) annoying having to write it every time, I need to configure it,

sudo gedit...

Hello all,

Big time beginner here at administering my own home server. I do admit, I've been getting help from ChatGPT for a lot of the...

Yes, I'm aware that third party repos and PPAs will result in broken upgrades -- disabling those (or removing all the software installed from them?)...

I would like to use Debian on my new PC with RTX 4060 Ti, but struggling with installation of Nvidia drivers. No matter what I do, I either end in...

Hello. I've got an Intel Arc A380. I'm trying to compute pytorch computations to the XPU device on it. However, the guides from Intel are for Ubuntu...