Debian 10 Buster | The First 30 Days | 1 Year Challenge

In this video, I'm going over the first 30 days with Debian 10 "Buster" which is still in testing, but is about to release to stable

System Recovery using Timeshift from TTY and vanilla install

Issues:
Kdenlive crashing a lot more
Steam refused to redownload Proton .

[arthemis]

following your example, I went from Mint to Debian Buster. I must say I am very happy with it ! Thank you :) Stable and up-to-date !

[terranrepublican]

Time flies when you're tinkering with Linux :D

[wikingagresor]

Chris, always set up a different partition for /home and for /, then all your settings stay intact even if you have to reinstall the whole system.

[mrcrackerist]

have you tried to build kdenlive from source?

[UPPERKEES]

Was using Debian for years because I thought that Debian was the golden standard of a stable system. At least, that's what everyone was saying. But the meaning of stable in Debian just means that API's won't change together with major version bumps of packages. Having a frozen system is nice and predictable, but not by definition stable in terms of user experience. Many bugs and improvements can be found upstream. If you don't get that, then some things remain half broken or will never work. Of course you can then mix stuff from the testing repository or use PPA's. But once you have to go down that road, it basically means you should switch to a different distro.


Been using Fedora now for 4 years. I never have to worry about problems anymore, if there are problems, then it's fixed around the time when upstream fixes it. Which I virtually never have to wait for since stuff just works. GNOME could improve in some areas. But since GNOME is mostly a RedHat project and they seem to manage to improve it with every release, I'm not worried.

[Zestyclose-Big]

Perhaps Kdenlive from Flathub might be OK?

[JessicaFEREM]

You should keep a Deja Dup instance running to restore the home folder.
Kdenlive is very unstable on Debian sometimes. You may need to download an older edition.

[gregzeng]

'moved to another box" ... means "moved to another folder"?
I'M running ten Linux and four We indows systems on my Dell XPS-15 notebook computer. The only "box" we notebook users have are other partitions, and-or remote drives (USB & flash sticks).

[ramiveiberman]

Hey Chris,
I'm installing Debian as a dual boot for the first time. I used linux in university so I know to handle the CLI. I'm installing Debian Stretch (stable) as a start until I feel confident going to newer cutting edge upgrades. At first I think I'll create one large partition for Debian and one for swap as a start.


Where would you suggest new user to continue afterwards? The Debian reference is quite boring frankly (And I don't mind reading..). How to properly manage the system, get graphic card drivers from NVidia for instance, how to properly create backups and things of these sort.

BTW I think this can be a great video.

Thank you for your videos, you made me make a try.
Rami

[WRND]

I'm also looking forward to testing out MX Linux 19 when that comes out (I've heard a lot of good things about MX Linux recently), which should have Debian 10 and Xfce 1.14.

[RonnieNissan]

Hey there. Great videos man

Should I use Debian or Manjaro on my work laptop which I do Writing and reports and lite design things on? I'd like to hear your opinion

Keep it up

[kaymio]

KDENlive is also available as a flatpak. Don't use it myself, but most if not all of my flatpaked programs work with less headaches on my side. (Steam excluded ;)

[terranrepublican]

5.0 has additional patches for Spectre/Meltdown. Have you considered disabling those patches (even in 4.20) ? Disabling them boosts up the performance by ~20%

noibpb spectre_v2=off spec_store_bypass_disable=off nospectre_v1"*

[SidTheGeek]

The greatest hurdle between me and switching to Linux is usability. Installing packages and comparing

[CrustyAbsconder]

I just used Debian Buster newly advertised installer ( RC ) and installed my very first copy of Debian. Buster is now my only OS, on an SSD on a Intel i5-3470 with DDR3 memory. So far so good.
The installer gave me a message that it chose to not install 4 pieces of firmware, so I am going to have to go back and take a look at those items.


The new installer gave me a choice of DE, and I went with Plasma, which is 5.14.5



No more aptitude or synaptic ? Apper is the thing now. Right ??


The Buster repository seems to have everything in it that I need. My Brother 720-D scanner, and Brother HL-L3270CDW color laser-printer are working. Keyboard, trackball, sound, ethernet, YouTube, monitor, Firefox all worked out of the box with no adjustments needed.


I installed ffmpeg, dxvk, vlc, inkscape, scribus, Aisleriot Solitaire, Gnome Mahjonng.

[peterjansen]

1. KDENlive runs most stable on KDE, allegedly.
2. Davinci Resolve!

[jeremyleonbarlow]

Try Shotcut, I’ve had nothing but good luck with it and while it works differently than Kdenlive, though they both use MLT and FFMPEG, it is fairly feature rich.

Alternatively, even though it is in Alpha, Tux Designer seems to suggest Olive Video Editor is fairly stable too and it looks like it is continuing to get increasingly feature rich.

[patrickmclaughlin]

I did think that Buster was the unstable, testing version of Debian.

[WRND]

Java wasn't playing nice for me for some reason on 10, so for now I went back to a 9 full image backup – easy to do on a VM server. Will mess around with it some more later when I have more time.

[JudasMugensson]

Have you tried using davinci resolve instead of kden live? It was really stable on windows and I think it's about just as stable on linux too.