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Hi all, is there a way to disable 'grub-install' during 'apt upgrade' ?

If I rename it, during the upgrade what apt does ?

I have just configured Cinnamon and when using the Nemo file manager, navigation is extremely slow. I take 5 seconds to move between folders even if...

Ubuntu's iso sizes 2006-2024. The bloat is painful to watch... it's only a desktop operating system, not a mission to Mars :lol:

This is why Mint...

Last week there was an upgrade which was installed. After the upgrade I did the . Upon running the command there were some packages which were...

I am using an MSI CX62 6QD model laptop, and the fan is constantly at 100%. There is no fan setting in the BIOS, and in Windows, I could control the...

I'm on Debian 12 using XFCE.
When I open the lid of my laptop and it wakes from sleep, it briefly shows the screen before prompting me for the...

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I Am considering migrating from X to Wayland, mostly for quite specific reasons and blah blah blah,
but also because it seems fairly...

I'm using a MacBook Pro with the latest stable Debian. My network adaptor is Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN...

I want to run an '𝕏 Spaces' on 𝕏.

In their Help Center it says:

Spaces is a way to have live audio conversations on X. Anyone can join, listen,...

My cousins are in a state where they have blocked reddit, telegram, discord, twitter and other messaging apps. Certain vpns with servers in the...

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I am trying to get my preseed partitioning expert recipe working using LVM. However, i always run into some type of error, i have build close to...

Hello everybody,
I installed Debian Main in september on a Minisforum Z83-F, and everything works except for the sound (earphones).
The soundcard is...

I found this from Gnome. A flow chart showing the expected behavior of Gnome Software Updates on the Gnome Wiki. Basically, if automatic updates is...

I have been setting up a new VM on my machine and been running into an issue.
$ sudo dmesg | grep IOMMU
DMAR: IOMMU enabled
AMD-Vi: AMD IOMMUv2...

F.T.C. Launches Antitrust Investigation Into Microsoft

(click the link, it is not behind a paywall)

Regulators are demanding information from the...

Hi Guys,
I'm about to get a Plus X Snapdragon Lenovo Laptop equipped processor. The simple question is whether there's a working debian distro in...

I am looking forward to retiring my ThinkPad T440s, so I am wondering what do you think is the best Debian laptop, according to the following...

Does deleting the contents of the directory /var/lib/apt/lists help in any way? Or is there something else that we should look at? For example a file...

Is there any tool or command or simpler/faster way of doing something that you wish you'd known about when starting out on Debian? Or when starting...

I have done something very stupid. I upgraded to Debian 9 and was having issues getting X to work. After tons of troubleshooting, I saw that one of...

Debian's Community on discord is back after it was nuked.
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So I was on void linux for several years until I really really needed pipewire for something. Every post I ever saw bragged about how its such an...

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we have seen the issue of intermittent disk IO write stuck a few times per day, and would like to get some help here.

Issue : the metric shows...

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For the purposes of visiting this forum I generally use Firefox on MacOS. I use EFF Privacy Badger and NoScript. Privacy badger shows 'no...

Hello everyone. I would like to formally introduce myself to the community. I did a full Debian 12 install on my spare device. So for I'm enjoying...

The other day my HDD completely crashed. I tried to go into system recovery to run fsck /dev/sdb5 but was denied permission as the OS was unable to...

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I have a problem with a conflict between a 4G connection and an ethernet connection.
When I use only the 4G connection, everything...

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I'm using Debian version 11.11 with Mate Desktop Environment.
On friday, november 22 I apt update && apt upgrade the system, and the kernel...

Hello guys can anyone help me find a way to remove the debian 12 grub theme and just have a default grub black and white screen?

I dual boot between LMDE (Mint Debian) Faye and Debian 12 Bookworm. I set up a login script via crontab in both installations, on LMDE it works...

Hi folks,

Apologies if this is a long-solved question, but I can't find anything relevant online.

I've been using qt5ct for a while now to apply...

I had a request to backport it to Bullseye and Bookworm bases, but I had to change a load of Qt5 QML package dependencies to the Qt6 qml6-...

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Gnome Desktop (Wayland and Classical) does not scale properly on the external screens, but Gnome flashback works on one screen but the other...

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I updated to Trixie yesterday and now the nvidia kernel is not working.

At first, I run apt remove *nvidia* and apt install nvidia-driver...

Running bookworm 6.1.0-10 on a dual booted system. Recently installed a megaRAID 9540-2M2 raid controller and while my win10 install recognizes the...

I'm trying to figure out how to bootstrap the Crystal language .

There's a bootstrap script on the upstream org , but it's unmaintained and after a...

Debian newbie, first forum post. I have installed debian 12 on a old 32-bit laptop. It worked fine for a while and have been happy. Due to the low...

I have an Asus Vivobook X1704VA laptop: my keyboard locks up randomly. At first I thought the problem might be with the xserver-xorg-input-libinput...

I have an old Gigabyte motherboard (can't find the model number without opening the computer case, but it supports an Fx8350 CPU, 4 DDR3 RAM slots,...

I've read something on these forums recently that makes it seem I'll have to build nVidia drivers from source to use the proprietary (i.e. high...

I’m trying to figure out the best way to automate installing debian on multiple instances. right now, i’ve been using ansible and attune for some of...

if in debian can be installed android emulator, as in windows xeplayer, can not xeplayer on windows install on debian, thanks

Kernel 6.11.7 and 6.11.9 hangs intermittently while booting
Console displays the following message

sd 2:0:0:0: No Caching mode page found
sd...

Is it possible to run VM in live debian gnome usb?
If tor proxies are set up in live debian gnome then will they be auto setup in the VM too? I tried...

Hello I recently installed Debian stable on a machine, with gnome DE and I can't make the headphones work. I am running the latest kernel, it's a...

I updated the various qemu packages last weekend (2024.09.28). I have been running a Windows 10 guest quite successfully for several years but since...