[Best-Of] Threads for the week.

[Best_Threads]

A Guide to Debian Community Discord
“Debian Community is an effort by users on Discord to create an instance/venue to discuss Debian GNU/Linux [...] We have a far larger amount of younger users and cross-distro users who are interested in discussing Debian-centric subjects”

Microphone doesn't work with Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller [8086:51c8]
“the .tplg extension is an abbreviation of topology (the way the parts of something are organized or connected). The file tells the kernel what microphones are present and how they are connected.”

[O/S][SOLVED] How to stay on stable and avoid getting on debian testing?
“FrankenDebian is what I ended up with, yes. Then I will reinstall after reading trough that, good learning lesson”

Why Debian does not offer from the beginning an .iso file to be installed as a server?
“The installation media as-is does an excellent job offering choice and user agency to deploy a wide range of configurations with only a few options screens and toggles. [...] Debian approach is "here are all the things, pick what you need".”

[Solved] Suspend external usb-disk
“I noticed, that it is continously spinning and not going into any suspend mode. [...] I really want my drive go to sleep when it's not in use...”

Solved: Very small text size in some applications in XFCE
“When you are not using KDE desktop environment, you need to install and use qt5ct. There you can adjust settings for QT-based applications.”

[Best_Threads]

[Hardware] Swappiness on servers
“the disk IO you 'spend' on swapping initialisation stuff out to swap, to reclaim ram, will be more than compensated for by the 'saving' of disk IO you'll get from the increased buffer and cache space allowed by that reclaimed ram.”

[O/S] Frequent and random freezing
“Found another post describing a similar issue; increasing the swap size was their solution. [...] Been 16+ hours without at single freeze. Seems to have fixed the problem.”

Crystal language... How does Debian compile it?
“Am I right that somewhere in the world there is a machine that is, or has been, somehow bootstrapping and compiling Crystal purely from source, and pushing out crystal packages to apt, and if so how can I replicate this?”
(Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)

Do Wayland Programs Require a Wayland DE?
“If you are running in an X session, there will be no wayland compositor and no wayland support. Most applications will detect this and fall back to X.”

Change Debian Logo B/t Grub Menu and Login Screen
“I would like to customize the Debian Logo (most likely a gif file) that appears between the Grub menu and the login screen.”
(Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)

Would you recommend Debian to a brand new Linux user? Why/Why not?
“the transition was stressful for me, and makes me second guess whether it's the right path for everyone.”
(Thanks to @donald for pointing this one out)

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[Hardware] mounting of new drive
“There are, as always "many ways to skin a cat"”
(Thanks to @dilberts_left_nut for pointing this one out)

[Testing - Trixie] Why not revert to the penultimate testing version instead of removing & nothing ?
“if you want a system which doesn't change packages regularly use Debian Stable. Testing and Sid are development versions so constantly changing packages is their purpose.”

[Solved] How To Configure Exim4 For External Email
“I spent a few days attempting to get this to work. [...] I am posting this to help anyone else struggling to get exim4 working with an external email server for sending email and forwarding local mail sent to root to an external Internet email address.”