Do NOT Break Debian

Ubuntu repos on Debian? Please... Stop... Doing this! .

[shaunkruger]

Back in Debian 2.1 I mixed testing and Sid repos into my stable install and broke it badly. I managed to fix it by apt uninstalling almost everything and apt installing again from stable. It was incredibly educational and I learned the reasons for some of the things on this list.

[nuligebla]

No need to create FrankenDebian. Ubuntu has already done it so much better than you ever could.

[trevorford]

I don't why I'm laughing at this, but knew someone who used to delete Windows by accident regularly. 😂

[Chiramisudo]

Ok, seriously, your Window Manager looks beautiful! Why do none of your tutorials ever start from the very beginning? I'm always left wondering how you get these beautiful looking installs. 😥

[ruirosado]

That's funny! About three hours ago i messed up a Debian install on btrfs. I think i forgot to create a directory and apparently didn't try to mount a volume on it, otherwise i should have noticed an error. But i'm pretty shure i added that to fstab. LMAO

[moistness]

Debian is a distro you should probably not daily drive in most cases. I don't know if anyone really needs such a stable distribution for their pc that they absolutely need to run debian. If you do what I used to do and run debian but try to get newer packages thru other means, then you really are just missing the point. You should rather just install a more up to date distribution. And do not be fooled when people call non-debian distros less stable, if you try to use debian the way it was not supposed to be used, you are more likely to break your system than running an "unstable" rolling release like arch.

[markh.]

"Oh, what could possibly go wrong mixing all this together??" (Famous Last Words Series).

[slitairek]

You should do a lxc/lxd vidoe soon!! I just got into lxc's. needed to spin up a VM for testing a single script that kept failing on my daily driver. So i tried a lxc and it feels like a nice halfway between a containerised "docker" system and a full fat VM install.
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But me being a GUI fanboy is finding lxc's a bit hard to get me head around with out a shiny interface to help out ;-) .

[toromac]

Problem with old tutorials, I've noticed, is that a lot of them have no obvious date stamps. Quite frustrating.

[Sillu-xk]

Debian+nix though, unstable channel gives pretty much latest packages

[EricClapton]

I have definitely broken other distros before!

[kobiblade]

Debian 12 is best release they had in decades.

[techdoc]

Interms of getting the latest packages instead of building from source. Could just grab the nix package of it. Because nix packages tend to have the most recent versions of software.

[RTVwithVardin]

YT suggested this to me after I broke my bcd store while fucking around in a vhd triple boot system, and in the process of recovering I deleted the linux efi partition, after a few hours when I recovered both linux and windows loaders, I couldn't login into the linux user, it showed wrong password even when it was correct.
Then I had to use kernel boot params to get into root, and I found out while repairing all the shite I messed up with the permissions of /usr directory, fixed the permissions and while the linux isn't healthy yet, it's working lol
Windows is alright as well.

The thing about fucking around is that no matter the OS, fucking around too hard will put you to depths of forums and knowledge you never knew existed.

Can't wait to distro hop to MX Linux after blaming garuda linux for instability (I screwed it and it was totally my fault)

[archgirl]

I just ran through my first ever Debian install today. No idea why it took me so long to take a look at it.

Every time I apt remove a package (not even autoremove), apt tells me that my entire DE (Xfce) and all its plugins are unneeded orphan dependencies that I should consider removing. It’s rather annoying, because it’s a big old block of text every single time I remove a single package, and _none_ of it is orphaned packages.

[KeritechElectronics]

I've used Debian testing/sid for 11 years, starting with squeeze or wheezy, probably reinstalled once or twice when I was moving on to a different SSD. Did some mistakes in the beginnings - like installing nVidia drivers from their website, or custom-building a kernel every time a new one went out.

BTW I'm a bit disappointed with an outdated Arduino IDE 1.8.x in the repo, nah.

[razek]

:)
20 years using debian and never read that document

[julioperez]

Very good video.

What about using flatpak on debian 12

[Robert_St-Preux]

Build your own OS from the kernel. Don't even wrestle with Debian.

[GoatzombieBubba]

MX Linux AHS edition.. Debian with latest kernels...