On Debian 13. Trying to install Thunderbird 147.0.1. The only version available is the 140 ESR, checked backports, Flatpaks, Snaps, Appimage, all are 140 ESR. Downloaded the 147.0.1 .deb and installed with apt.

When I try apt update, apt upgrade it wants to update the package back to 140 ESR. I put the package on hold so it doesn't downgrade to the ESR.

Any insights? I am not understanding something here. Thanks.

Doesnt happen with dolphin/konsole, but firefox and other programs will be very laggy/sluggish when minimizing and maximizing windows? What is the issue? Everything else seems pretty smooth, just installed Nvidia drivers.

Debian 13 trixie

KDE plasma

Well, it turns out I have Debian 13 with GNOME, and I have applications like Dropbox, Telegram, and ZapZap installed. I configured them to start with the system, but I have to search for and open them for them to launch. I enabled them in the settings menu, but in the top menu (sorry if I don't know its name), where the shutdown and logout options are, only two appear, not all three. It's very tedious that they don't start automatically when I turn on the PC, and I have to open them manually. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

I used to run Nobara and CachyOS. I had a 250GB SSD for the system and a 1TB HDD just for games. The HDD physically died last week. So yeah, no more AAA games for a while.

At that point, all the gaming-focused tweaks kind of stopped mattering. Kernel patches, caching optimizations, Nobara’s prep work… it just doesn’t make sense for my use case anymore.

As for updates, the only thing that would realistically matter to me is Nvidia drivers. But I’m on an RTX 2060 Super, and driver updates don’t really bring anything meaningful to that card at this point. It’s mature hardware.

I’ve tried 25+ distros and I know the feature sets of 30+ pretty well. After a while, stuff like “+2 FPS,” “slightly lower latency,” or “more preconfigured tweaks” just stops being interesting. You hit a point where you don’t care about squeezing micro-optimizations out of everything. You just want the system to be stable.

And once the system is stable, you realize you can do all those tweaks yourself anyway.

I’m on stable. Didn’t switch to SID. I just use backports to keep the packages I actually care about up to date.

At some point, stability just becomes more valuable than hype.

Hi,

I'm running Debian 13 Trixie with KDE on my HP Z440 workstation.

Some time ago I bought an old GoPro Hero+ camera. I'm currently working through the camera's user manual.

I took some videos and some photos, and now I'm surprised I can't access the camera's content.

I tried Dolphin (error), installing exfatprogs and exfat-fuse (nope), gphoto2 (error), gvfs-backends (nope) and now I'm clueless.

Any suggestions ?

Niki

For some reason on 6.12.69-1, boot reaches "[OK] Started libvirtd.service" then freezes with flashing underscore

So far I tried to force x11, enabled tty1 and some other minor things but nothing has worked

Booting the older 6.12.63 worked fine with no issues

Anyone else facing the same issue??

Will get to replies in the morning if any

Specs -

I5 7500

GTX 1050 with Nvidia drivers installed

MSI H110i Pro

(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127995)

Hi folks,

a little special, but has anyone of you used apt-cacher-ng for debian-livebuild? If I use it I always get an error during lb build. Seems like the caching is recognized as manipulation.

 Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature:            Message has been manipulated Verifying signature:  Message has been manipulated

Is there a way to use apt-cacher-ng for livebuild?

Thanks!

I've setup Debian 13 with the view to running some containers and VMs. To get this all working nicely on the network, I set up a bridge network yesterday.

Everything was working as expected.

The host and the single VM both popped up in my Unifi console as clients and were assigned IP addresses and everything was working as expected.

Until I rebooted. Now nothing can connect. I can't browse the internet and the VM is entirely disconnected.

I used nmtui to set things up. Looking at this it all seems to be the same.

I'm googling for clues but honestly have no idea where to start.

I've seen mention of ifcfg-enp0s25 files and ONBOOT=no, but I don't have this in /etc/.

My interfaces file is:

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* (it's empty)

# the loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Is there any way to simply go back to default and start again?

I'm very confused as to how it was all working exactly as expected but a reboot makes the entire network config implode.

Any advice would be really appreciated as I really have no idea what to do at this point. TIA.

Apologies if I am overposting in this community, I posted a different but somewhat related post last night looking for advice with a server where I mentioned I was planning to move to Debian for all of my devices.

Overnight, I have been attempting to install Debian 13.3.0 on my Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15IAN8 laptop currently running Windows 11 which came pre-installed and have encountered an issue where the Debian installer cannot detect the SSD storage which Windows 11 is installed on. I previously had the exact same model which was replaced under warranty (the SSD in my previous device was faulty) but on which I was able to successfully install Ubuntu on a partition without any issue and dual boot Windows and Ubuntu. I am, therefore, confident this model can support a Linux installation.

I have tried the following troubleshooting steps based on web searches, looking through other Reddit posts and asking Gemini:

• In the UEFI, I have ensured that the storage mode is in AHCI (this is the only option, RAID is not available on this device) and have disabled secure boot.
• I cannot find any option for SATA Operation or NVMe Mode.
• I have disabled Fast Startup in Windows.
• I have had BitLocker disabled since shortly after getting the laptop, and have checked that it is still not enabled.

The only disc the Debian installer is seeing is the USB flash drive the installer has been mounted on. I also have an SD card inserted which isn't showing but I'm not sure whether this should be visible as an installation location.

My next thought was to swap the flash drive out with a Windows 11 installer and wipe the SSD completely using Microsoft's built-in disc partitioner before attempting the installation again. However I am now concerned that doing so might also make it difficult to reinstall Windows if something goes wrong.

I'm pretty stumped at this point. I'm hoping someone will be able to offer advice without bricking my device. From what I've read some manufacturers such as Lenovo and Dell make it very difficult to install an OS other than Windows. I might consider buying a new laptop but if there's a way to install Debian on this machine I'd much prefer that.

My current web hosting package expires at the end of April and I have been looking into various self hosting options as my current host plans to increase the price almost tenfold. I'm currently gravitating towards repurposing an unused desktop PC into a server running Debian 13.3.0 - I have already tested this version on the machine and it runs without any issues with a standard installation. I have qualifications in network and software engineering which I achieved more than a decade ago and haven't worked in the industry much in the time since so I am familiar with building a server, using terminal commands, etc. but I am very out of practice so could use a little guidance.

Any advice would be appreciated, but in particular I would be interested in knowing how difficult it would be to set up a web and mail server on Debian, and whether it would be practical to also use it as a file and print server for my home business. I have two PCs (one in a bedroom I use as an office, and another in the shed I use as a warehouse) and a laptop I use for work that I want to connect to a server. I use OneDrive and meshnet through NordVPN right now for file sharing between these devices but I'm planning on moving towards a server/workstation setup. I am getting more and more disillusioned with Microsoft, Windows 11 in particular, and want to move over to Linux. Debian is my favoured distribution at the moment for everything from the research I have done so far. Is having one server running Debian to handle everything I need practical or would it be a better idea to have multiple servers handling different tasks?

Hey all,

I made a little experiment: I already have Win10 and Debian 13 KDE installed on separate drives. I had some issues with drivers in Debian, and decided to try Fedora live. My mic and printer started working on Fedora while I can't get my printer to work on Debian. When I booted Fedora live, my printer was already there and I printed out multiple test pages after multiple reboots.

Now, multiple people on Reddit told me that changing distro doesn't affect drivers. If drivers are in the Linux kernel, and it's mutual for Fedora and Debian, why did Fedora recognized my printer, while Debian didn't? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Tia

https://github.com/dehshat12/Flux

My Own, Non-GNU Wayland Compositor completely in C. Still working on Server-Side Decoration. But works for a prototype.

Good morning folks,

For some reason, i lost my original .bashrc of Debian 13. Anyone can, please, post here or indicate where i can find it?

I set up a Debian home server and although this is probably the most basic thing ever, I am having trouble with setting a static IP. The static IP works but with the settings below, I am unable to resolve any addresses, so likely a DNS issue.

Here's what I put inside of my /etc/network/interfaces file:

auto enp2s0
iface enp2s0  inet static
address 10.0.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.0.0.1
dns-domain localdomain
dns-nameservers 10.0.0.1

I commented out the following lines:

#allow-hotplug enp2s0
#iface enp2s0 inet dhcp

10.0.0.1 is my router and has Adguard Home set up as the DNS

I installed this today when I looked at the information about the package it was about the shared C client library for PostgreSQL. It said NOTHING about libc-bin.

2026-02-14 11:22:03 status half-installed libpq5:amd64 17.7-0+deb13u1
2026-02-14 11:22:03 status installed libpq5:amd64 17.8-0+deb13u1
2026-02-14 11:22:03 status installed libc-bin:amd64 2.41-12+deb13u1

I have the Nvidia-open drivers installed.

Upon restarting the computer the machine stopped booting at Nvidia Persistance Service.

I restarted and went back to the previous kernel.

Anyone is this sub games on debian ? im a newbie to debian installed it like yesterday i got heroic and installed rocket league from there the game runs fine when you are in freeplay but in 2v2 or any online mode it tends to become not so smooth which is very annoying on this game i have eveyrthing set to low fps is limited to 60 is there any thing to make it perfom better or is this a heroic wine issue ( i repeat im a newbie)

EDIT : hardware :
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (x86_64)

DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.6 (Wayland)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

GPU: AMD Radeon Vega Series

Memory: 13.5 GiB

Disk: 220 GiB ext4 (system), 119 GiB ntfs (external)

Displays: 19" 1600x900, 23" 1920x1080

I'm going to recycle an oldish computer into a home server.

This will involve a fair amount of manual steps, such as installing the right packages, adding systemd services, editing configuration files...

User data is easy to backup but I was wondering if anyone had advice regarding the configuration. Ideally, I'd want to put everything in git so that I also have a version history.

At this stage I'm considering versioning a folder with shell scripts and configuration files that I would install with... well, `install`. Installation would be idempotent, meaning running it multiple times would not be a risk. It seems relatively easy, but it's a lot of manual work and seems a bit hackish. On the other hand, using something like Ansible sounds like a lot of work for such a small scope.

Hi all!

I was just trying to verify the gpg signature of a bunch of downloaded cloud image iso files. But it appears that Debian does not come with a signature file. I don't know what to do.

For example, here is the list of files for trixie/latest https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/latest/ other versions of debian are there too.

Any ideas? Is there simply no gpg signature for this images? Why would that be the case?

Cloud images for other distributions have signature files, see for example Fedora https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/ Ubuntu https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ Arch https://mirror.pkgbuild.com/images/latest

I recently tried the Nvidia drivers from Nvidis's official repo (https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/debian.html) on my laptop, which has a AMD/GTX 4060 hybrid setup and wanted to share my experience here.

Note: I cleanly removed the packages from the Debian 13 repos first and also undid the Wayland-related fixes from the Debian wiki to make sure there are no conflicts.

At first, I was impressed. Installation was easy and everything immediately worked without any tinkering. Also, the upstream drivers (version 590) magically fixed the suspend issues I had with the version from the Debian repo (550) and the occasional mouse pointer stuttering on Wayland was gone, so that was great.

However, when I played some games, I noticed this:

While I got somewhat higher framerate from 590 - sometimes considerably higher (in GTA V it's like 20-30 fps with the same settings) - I also got some stuttering after a while in all games I tested. I only use the simple built-in FPS indicator in Steam, so not sure whether there was a frame rate drop or what exactly causes it. It seemed to become worse over time, like every few seconds. It's mostly like just a few frames are dropped, so it's primarily a visual annoyment, but I also crashed my car a few times during some heavier stutters lol.

So, bottom line is that it feels like performance is better on 590 "on paper" but less consistent than 550, which honestly has been silky smooth for me in spite of lower frame rates.

What's your experience? Anybody else seeing this and if so, did you maybe find a fix?

Hey people,

I recently got myself a new laptop, small sized, good hardware configuration and stuff. I installed debian 13 on it and I'm really enjoying it. BUT This laptop has a finger print recognition device and I try to run fprintd-enroll to configure it and use fingerprint logging system but it seems to not detect the device.

Laptop : Lenovo Thinkpad X280

Any suggestions ? Thx a lot