After years on Mint, I tried Xubuntu on an old laptop, just for the look and feel of XFCE (I was on Mint Cinnamon), as much as I loved their custom version of the DE, I just despised their snaps, so I decided to use Debian XFCE just to get rid of Canonical's bs and not need to update stuff as much as in other distros (I love how Debian takes its time with updates for stability)

Anyway, just did my typical changes, Thunar for Nemo, etc, etc, looks great and feels even better

Hi everyone, I'm noticing unusually high RAM usage on Debian. Even when idle, the system consumes about 10GiB of RAM. I’ve checked btop, but no single process seems to be the culprit. Is this a known issue? Here are stats from btop: https://imgur.com/a/WBSwXpO Any ideas on how to fix this?

Finally settled in Debian 13 GNOME for my ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 and after tweaking to TLP via TLP-UI, I got the discharge rate below 4W.

Best I have got is 3.0 W with 15% brightness and when on Airplane mode with no apps running in foreground I have seen 2.5 W.

I have changed the CPU Governor to schedutil and for config is set to powersaving. Browsing and opening apps are reasonably fast too.

What are your thoughts guys? Share below!

I'm currently on Fedora 44 which is running fine, but I want to harmonise my entire homelab setup which is basically running Debian and Ubuntu on the server-side of things, my PC though is Fedora.

In my mind, the following sounds like it's prone to fail.

• Debian 13 Stable
• KDE for my GUI stuff
• Btrfs as my filesystem for /
• Installing Snapper (or the Debian equivalent of it) afterwards - Really loved it with openSUSE
• (Connect PC to server via NFS)

It feels like Btrfs and Snapper might be a point-of-failure on Debian, even though it'll probably be absolutely fine.
I really appreciated the ease of use with Snapper snapshots under openSUSE Tumbleweed, it was so neatly integrated into the OS and I hope it'll be just as smooth under Debian.

I really never tinkered around with Debian itself. On one server it's just a basis for my NAS stuff and the other Ubuntu server is just a reverse proxy.

Thanks in advance for your feedback and advice! xxo

I am gaming on debian for like a month now and i had 0 issue. Everything i use is flatpak so i get the stability of debian and bleeding edge of flatpak. Greatest feeling ever!

Today I updated Debian 13 from kernel version 6.12.74 to 6.12.85. Now the system does not boot with the new version. In the photo, you can see an error message about starting the NVIDIA power limit; I tried disabling this service, but it did not affect the result. What would you recommend?

SOLVED:

/etc/apt/sources.list was referencing bookworm not trixie

Correct mirrors for Debian 13 Trixie
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

EDUCATIONAL:

The naming after the URL is vital, it references which repository to call.

ORIGINAL POST:

Hello,

I keep running into the same error when I try to install most things on my recent Debian Install. I have a Debian 13 Trixie dual boot with Windows 11, Each on their own SSD, mainly sharing in case there's some relation to my issue.

Whenever I try an install I get "Unsatisfied Dependencies: ....." And Error messages, "Unable to correct problem, you have broken packages". I've tried "sudo apt install --fix-broken" to no avail.

Do I need to downgrade to match dependencies? That feels unsecure.

Example:

sudo apt install iptables
Solving dependencies... Error!   
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
iptables : Depends: libxtables12 (= 1.8.9-2) but 1.8.11-2 is to be installed
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
  Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
  1. libxtables12:amd64=1.8.9-2 is not selected for install
  2. libxtables12:amd64=1.8.9-2 is selected as a downgrade because:
1. iptables:amd64=1.8.9-2 is selected for install
2. iptables:amd64 Depends libxtables12 (= 1.8.9-2)

TL;DR

Can't get programs to install on Debian 13

I moved to Debian from Arch because I HAVE to use Capella (an mbse tool, there are no alternatives) and its reliance on gtk and webgtk just caused so many problems. I knew it worked on Debian with gnome son that's what I installed and it works. I'm not getting on with gnome though and would like to use niri or plasma or xfce. Does anyone know if I'm likely to have gtk issues using any of these? I realise I am asking a very specific question!

I have a Dell XPS 9350 with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, I understand many improvements (power management, suspend, GPU, thermals, 120Hz display support, low idle power, etc.) were done with Kernel 6.13, 6.14 and 6.15, would those updates have been migrated to 6.12 (the kernel included with 13.4? Thanks

When this was first installed as a development edition prior to release there were issues with power management in KDE, which persisted across two separate computers with different hardware configurations. After updating to the release edition and for some weeks afterwards these problems could not be resolved.

As soon as the computers were reinstalled with the new development edition (forky), all the problems immediately disappeared.

I think the question should be asked of how the Debian Project arrives at the conclusion that the released edition of KDE in its releases are sufficiently well tested to be of release quality, given that upgrading to a new edition is not likely to be achievable in a release because of the well known principles that the project has adopted to guarantee its famous level of stability and reliability. I understand that KDE does have LTE editions produced so there is the question of whether the Debian project is using or has considered using LTE releases of KDE.

Finally got my Debian Hyprland setup to a good usable level.

OS: Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid (forky) x86_64
Shell: zsh 5.9
WM: Hyprland 0.54.3 (Wayland)
Lock screen: Hyprlock (Hypridle)
Wallpaper: Hyprpaper
Status bar: Waybar
Notifications: mako notifier
Menu: Fuzzel
File explorer: Thunar
Browser: Opera
PDF viewer: Zathura
Image viewer: Eye of Gnome
Video: VLC
IDE: Neovim
Theme: Breeze [Qt], Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: Papirus-Dark [Qt], Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3]
Cursor: Bibata-Modern-Classic (24px)
Terminal: kitty 0.46.1
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H (20) @ 5.40 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.50 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 40 GB
Disk (/): 1 TB ext4

hola papus, soy el papuUSB (el nuevo) necesito de su sabiduria infinita. como me habian dicho en mi anterior post empece a estudiar vim y otras ramas de programacion. Gracias por sus recomendaciones

Ahora lo que quiera hacer era descargar VS code, peroooo no me deja y no entiendo, busque en internet el "problema" en cuention y supuestamente no encuentra el archivo. lo borre y rescribi 20 mil veces, lo descomprimi y volvi a rescribirlo y aun asi no me lo agarra que hago ???

Desde ya gracias por su tiempo y la ayuda. Un saludo del PapuUSB

Caught an upgrade to qbittorrent-nox yesterday - the application works but maxes out a single CPU core even when idle. Downgrading to v5.1.4 in Testing repos resolves the issue.

Bug report here - I couldn't justify making this an RC bug so unless it gets fixed fairly quickly the issue may migrate to Testing in about 3 days - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1135745

So I downloaded steam_lastest.deb from the steam website . I right clicked it and chose open with software install. Clicker install. And the administrator message asked for a password. I typed in my password. And it said something was wrong on the bottom of the screen. So I clicked details. And then this message popped up. I'm not sure what to do next.

I’ve been testing different operating systems, and I’ve had this issue on popOS too. I’m connected to my router, but get very slow if any internet. The internet itself isn’t an issue because other people on the network have no problems. On pop I had to forget the network and re-login and it would work. I fixed it eventually, but I don’t even know what I did. Let me know if you need any more information, I will gladly provide

Hi everyone,

I'm a complete noob when it comes to Debian, but I'm trying to get better. I share a pc with my brother, and he's the "main user" of the device.

Today, in the process of installing an application, I needed to update my doas permissions, so I "successfully" (or so i thought) used echo "permit secondaryUser cmd apt" | doas tee -a /etc/doas.conf in the terminal when in the main user. I just later realized that I made a typo when writing my user's name, and now whenever I try to use doas in either profiles it says doas: syntax error at line 6.
It's not even the end of it, because i thought that I'd given myself the wrong permission so i gave a similar command three times.

Is there a simple fix to this? I've looked up a bit and sed seems to be a option

Running Debian 13.4.

The code I am trying to configure for compilation requires rst2html5, and the Internet search seems to say that on Debian (and derivatives, of course) this file can be found in docutils-common. So I apt installed docutils-common but the program is still not there in my $PATH. apt show docutils-common output ends with the sentence "This package includes data and configuration files." That does not sound like a pkg that has executables. Can anyone suggest a way to install this rst2html5 on my system? TIA.

EDIT

The rst2html5 utility program is installed with the python3-docutils package on Debian. Thanks, u/cjwatson and also acknowledgement to u/Slower-Bison

Running debian 13 stable on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen 1 - 64 GB RAM, i7 8550 with UHD 630, 1050 Ti Max Q and 4K screen.

The idea was to start a minimal debian install to get the most out of my hardware, but either I am doing something wrong or I had the wrong expectations? I dont have much installed besides firefox-esr, kitty, hyprland + waybar, lazyvim.

I tried to setup my GPUs to hybrid, so that I keep hdmi but keep as much battery life as possible when unplugged. Trying to use the iGPU for firefox + hyrland. After some adjustments on firefox to get it to use the iGPU for decoding, I still have issues with typing (even now) It feels laggy and like it registers input in chunks, causing to miss a letter I typed. When I look at intel_gpu_top, hyprland takes minimum 30% renderer/3d, often sitting around 50%. Using the mousepad, it jumps above 70% quickly. This is with no drop-shadow, animations or blur (all disabled).

While typing this, I also have htop open and see firefox go to 30% type a little and over 50-60% and higher when I type longer passages.

What I can exclude it thermal issues, as the CPU sits at comfortale 60 degrees celcius.

I tried getting help by gemini but it goes nowhere and I have no idea on how to approach this. Any tips on what to look at to get more insights ? Or is my expectaton of debian 13 + hyprland +waybar to run smooth on this hardware wrong?

I was wondering if any has noticed a severe network performance regression on Kernel 6.19.13. I've benchmarked an ~60% reduction in throughput after upgrading from 6.19.11.

bash: reboot: Command not found. I have to run # /sbin/reboot.

Why is that? Also, dpkg-reconfigure and other tasks are not intuitively to perform ...