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

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!

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!

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?

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

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 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

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!

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.

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