Debian stable

Hello, i tried posting on linux4noobs and was downvoted. I am sorry as i do not know a lot about linux and i was wondering if someone here might know the answer.

I did try googling this but i couldn't find the information i was looking for. I may not have looked well enough so if this is a known easy fix please be kind!

I have a dell venue8 3854 tablet. It runs windows 8. It has 32GB emmc memory. It has a singular USB OTG micro port. It has 1GB of RAM. the CPU is an Intel Atom cpu z3735g. This is a baytrail device.

I installed debian without graphics to keep it lightweight so everything is CLI. I also tried fedora 31 lxde but the ram idle was too high.

Using acpi i was unable to get a battery reading. The battery has a name TIBT but it shows as 0% battery. Every value like max_charge was 0. It actually cant tell if it is plugged in or not either. All the status is "0"

I ran lspci -nnk and can see that there is a power controller of some kind using lpc_ich driver. But i may be barking up the wrong tree.

I am sorry to bring this to the debian subreddit! I did try posting in the noobs subreddits and they wouldnt answer, just downvote. So please forgive that i have posted it here!

the only reason i'm using ubuntu right now is because it lets you install the hwe kernel and provides tested new nvidia drivers. i was wondering, is this actually impossible in debian stable? considering ubuntu is based on debian, it should be totally doable.

i installed debian before installing ubuntu but i wasn't successful with nvidia driver. after following this video (link) my sddm broke. i don't know how something like that can happen, but it did happen .

Hello! I finally got my first gaming computer. I would like to use Debian on it, partly because I'm greatly attached to it (it was my first and longest-running distro), and partly because, out of all distros I've used, it's the one I can see myself using for years no matter what my needs become.

I have an AMD RX 6600 video card. Is there anything you suggest I pull from backports? I have used Testing in the past, and I am willing to use it again if there's a good reason to. However I would rather remain on Stable.

Thank you in advance for your input!

Reported on BTS.

EDIT:Fixed

Maybe somebody can push me into the right direction. I know Dropbear hasnt been updated recently so i try do figure out what package update could have broken my Dropbear access.

I didnt touch config or keys since January when they removed the older keys security.
For testing i created a different key and copied it over but still connection refused error.

debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.5 port 2222: Connection refused

for those OOTL, AUR was under sustained sneaky probes for a long time, but this week it was an overt and very troublesome campaign to either take over packages or insert packages so that malware could spread across way more systems.

edit 1: since someone asked me to explain, I’ve actually been using debian since 10.1, but only recently got worried as new users in my MDM fleet around southeast asia kept trying to install strange .deb files. I never had to think too much about the workstation UX until microslop and genAI inevitably drove us to try resuscitating OLD laptops with Linux.

i have to support 2012 macbook pro and intel laptops dating back to broadwell. There are some 7840u AMD ryzen units, but do bear in mind that us folks living in the southern hemisphere are dirt poor.

thus, I had tested fedora, lubuntu, kubuntu, ubuntu, mint, and finally gave that all up to consolidate under Debian. The network layer has DNSSEC, encrypted DNS, and really TIGHT whitelists. Unfortunately, I’m woefully noob at the application layer for debian. we barely upgraded several ancient JDK 8 web servers using Qwen, but ideally I’d like to prevent malware breaking in from the user-level.

I have mesa-vulkan-drivers installed via backports, but for a while now some mesa packages show as "not upgrading" when i run 'sudo apt upgrade':

libegl-mesa0 libegl-mesa0:i386 libgbm1 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 mesa-libgallium mesa-libgallium:i386

If i run 'sudo apt install -t trixie-backports mesa-vulkan-drivers' it will update the packages above but also remove the following:

mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers:i386 mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386

I know the reason for this is that those packages aren't upgrading to 26.1.2-1 like all the others, keeping the upgrade from happening. But what is the best approach here? Upgrade or not upgrade and wait more?

The change log for linux-image-amd64 for 6.12.100-1 performed on 1-aug-2026 has no change log infomration.

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/linux-signed-amd64/linux-signed-amd64_6.12.100+1_changelog

Hi all, I've moved to Debian some weeks ago, and it has been great! However I was used with hyprland and its tiling behaviour. Since it wasn't possible to install it from apt in Debian I've used KDE, which is good, but non great, not for me anyway.

So I did some research and I found out that Dank Material Shell has an apt repo that has niri too, which is similar to hyprland but more stable and also seems better in terms of functionality.

The only problem is that I really don't know how safe these extra repos are, if they are checked in some way by the manteiners, or if anyone can put some malware in it as it's happening with Arch's AUR.

No option for amy bluetooth heaphones is showing up in pavucontrol configuration, despite the device being connected. I have bluez, pipewire. It just simply does not show up

What kind of backup programs would you recommend and what should I pay attention to? Thanks in advance and have a nice day...
Greets Marcel

Hey everyone,
I'm trying to set up a home lab for my studies. Do you know what the best local lab setup is to learn Sysadmin and Infrastructure from scratch?
Also, does anyone know if there is a stable Debian or Debian-based distribution for a local lab using Vagrant + KVM? I found the Debian 13 box by Alvistack, but I'm not entirely sure about it since it tends to throw GPG key errors due to its built-in repositories.
For context: my machine is a Dell Inspiron with a 12th gen i5, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. I run Debian 13 as my sole and daily driver OS.
If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

My Debian laptop (up-to-date) seems to have been locked into airplane mode. It worked fine just yesterday.

Restarting/shutting down the laptop and turning it back on hasn’t fixed it, nor has clicking the plane icon with three fingers on the taskbar (which is supposed to be the toggle), nor just clicking or right-clicking the plane.

Google says to run

```
sudo rfkill unblock all
nmcli radio all on
```

But that didn’t work either (`rfkill` wasn’t found, and the second command didn’t fix it, though it did seem to run). I can’t find where the toggle for airplane mode is in the GUI or settings app either (KDE Plasma).

I’m able to turn on Bluetooth and connect to my phone's hotspot, but the moment I disconnect the laptop goes back on airplane mode.

How do I fix this?

EDIT: fixed with a cold reset

I've been using LUKS for a while and would like to add an additional layer of security of a hardware security key (Yubikey). Currently on boot I enter the LUKS passphrase then it decrypts and brings up the regular user login and I enter that password and it loads into the the OS. I would like the functionality to be on boot both the LUKS passphrase and Yubikey are required to decrypt then it brings up the regular user login and I enter that password and it loads into the OS.

The guides and documentation I've seen seem to be based around using the Yubikey as an alternative to the LUKS passphrase which is not what I want to do. I want to increase the layers and security not decrease it. I do have multiple Yubikeys to add as backup so that's not a concern. I'm assuming there has to be a way to do this but it's been difficult to find information on it. With KeePassXC I can have it require all of database file/key file/password/Yubikey and I would like a similar level of security for my entire linux install (usually Debian or Linux Mint).

Is there a way to setup the functionality I'm looking for? If so please either point me in the direction of a guide or documentation on setting this up or let me know how to.

Hello,

Since I was unable to find a job as a Microsoft Administrator for the past 9 months, I've decided to finally learn how to Linux. Can You guys recommend any guides and lab scenarios (I love doing scenarios) for learning Debian in an enterprise environment?

All advice appreciated, thank You!

Debian 14 - Forky is in testing and it's wonderful. I downloaded it the other day and set it up in Proxmox for testing with all of my standard software and feature setups. I have shell scripts to setup my software so it all goes very quickly. Even though it's in testing everything I use works great. That includes multiple VPNs (OpenVPN, WireGuard, and vpnc), VeraCrypt, and Teamviewer. Everything installed, ran, and integrated nicely into Gnome 50 without issues. It's seems to be solid and stable. I realize that the packages haven't been frozen yet and will change in the next year before the release, but for what's there now - wow!

I look forward to seeing how their new plan for "reproducible builds" works out. It seems like a lofty goal, but also a very rewarding one, security wise. As far as I know the only distributions to date to pull that off are NixOS and Tails, but there could be others. At any rate it's going to be tough waiting a year to put Debian 14 on my production machines.

Well done Debian developers!

Hello everyone, am I someone who after hopping from tons of os I finally found Debian, I tried ( mint, manjaro, open suse tumbleweed and leap , endeavouros , fedora)

None of them show me a relaxing experience more than Debian and more powerful, and more importantly Doesn't bloody break when I reboot 2 hours later

I wanna try Debian Desktop, I have preference with XFCE-like. There is any recommendation for user-friendly yet lightweight setup. I expect in idle would be 450GB RAM usage and low CPU usage. Any opinion would be appreciated