• 9point6@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    All my personal servers/sbcs run Debian

    I do enough DevOps at work, I don’t need my free time to be a job too

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      The NixOS, it callllssss usssssss

      come in they ssssaid, itssss delcarativvvveee they ssssssaid.

      Wait i just put an environment variable in conifguration.nix and moved home manager back out of my home folder to a central spot why does sddm take 5 minutes to give me Wayland now?

      edit: OMG 6 hours later and I have it working. I have a configuration.nix that i re-grew with my 2025 backup and a configuration.nix.slow that is still broken if i switch it out. SDDM timeouts all over the place

      the diff between them give 0 indication why sddm would fail.

      I kinda want to go back through line by line and find out what did it, but I kinda also want to sleep, eat and go to work in a few hours :)

      edit: edit: no rest for the wicked. I ran it through Meld, and there was very little there. Best I can tell, my home manager was synlinked to the wrong config in the store. I’m running it modular, so the nixos-rebuild “should” have moved its configs. The defunct home manager somehow broke QT6 and I lost my file/edit menus in qt apps, the fix for that was a template override env var in configuration.nix. When i fixed the borked home symlink, that failure stopped being a failure and the QT override somehow gave SDDM heartburn. I hadn’t seen it because I rarely change home manager, and whatever was wrong sat that way since 25.11.

      Removing the line for QT to ignore the template stopped SDDM/Portal from loading and crashing for 5 minutes straight.

  • ☭SaltyIcetea☭@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 days ago

    Debian is great. but where is the fun in greatness? the jank is what makes computing enjoyable. wabi sabi or something like that.

    (i use arch btw.)

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      11 days ago

      Do you want to live the boring stable life, where you can just build and build and build your personal poop castle on top of that solid OS for years and years? If yes, switch to Debian. You won’t be reinstalling till you get so bored that you get the urge to self-harm (by reinstalling). We can’t afford new hardware anyways, but even if we do, the same install will work on the new system with few tweaks. 😆

      The initial setup is a bit more annoying than Pop/Mint/Ubuntu but not too much more. Upgrades are also a bit more annoying but not too much more. There’s good documentation for both of those procedures.

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
    1·
    10 days ago

    I love being on Debian, everything just working and not living in fear of updates. And any software that I must have the latest version of I just install via flatpak, appimage, distrobox etc.

  • dan@upvote.au
    0·
    11 days ago

    I’ve been using Debian on servers for 20+ years, but ended up using Fedora on my desktop and laptop.

    Debian is stable, meaning it doesn’t change often. Packages don’t get major version upgrades during the lifetime of a Debian release. That’s fantastic on servers, but can be annoying on clients since you don’t get the very latest drivers, the newest version of KDE, etc. Linux drivers move pretty quickly, especially for newer hardware.

    You can run Debian testing, which is a more up-to-date development branch, but you need to make sure you pull security updates from unstable as the security team do not upload to testing. https://github.com/khimaros/debian-hybrid

    If you’re new to Linux, then also consider Linux Mint Debian Edition.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      0·
      11 days ago

      I’m literally the opposite. I have been on Red Hat since Halloween and all servers I have ever touched have been Red Hat or a close fork of RHEL. When I decided to go Linux for my daily driver and more self hosting I went Pop!_OS on my laptop, Linux Mint for my wife, and Linux Mint Debian Edition for all my home systems.

      Red Hat is for work. Debian is for life.

      • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
        0·
        11 days ago

        I realize that’s it’s completely irrational, but I hate the name Pop!_OS, such that it may have kept me from checking it out to-date! I think it’s so stupid. And why does it need the exclamation mark?? But maybe I should look into it…

        • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
          0·
          11 days ago

          I actually do not recommend it at the moment. They are working on their new DE (Cosmic) so the current stable release is very old.

              • DM294@sh.itjust.works
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                10 days ago

                It is pretty polished to be daily driven. However you might miss some more features in settings and such if you’re coming from something like KDE.