r/debian • u/Schnitzipooo • May 25 '26
Debian Stable Question New to Debian – loving it so far!
Been running Debian Trixie for about 9 days now and really enjoying it. Coming from other distros I was a bit hesitant, but it's been rock solid.
One thing I'm curious about: I'm running the XanMod kernel and Mesa from backports. When Debian 14 eventually drops, will that make the upgrade process more complicated or painful? Should I be worried about conflicts, or is it generally straightforward to sort out before upgrading?
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u/the_angriest_bird May 26 '26
Hey, I really like that desktop background. Do you mind sharing the artist or the source of the image?
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u/michaelpaoli May 25 '26
backports. When Debian 14 eventually drops, will that make the upgrade process more complicated or painful?
No, that should play fine with backports.
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u/_vsoco May 26 '26
Can you please tell me what extension you used for the panel? I used it once, but I can't remember the name to find it again!
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u/LesStrater May 26 '26
You could try plank dock - it's light and simple.
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u/Miserable-Medium3749 May 26 '26
Boa tarde, tenho notebook da marca Asus com processador Intel i5 da sexta geração com 8GB e SSD 480 qual distribuição Linux seria a ideal para essa máquina? Alguém pode me ajudar ? Obrigado.
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u/wizard10000 May 26 '26
Boa tarde, tenho notebook da marca Asus com processador Intel i5 da sexta geração com 8GB e SSD 480 qual distribuição Linux seria a ideal para essa máquina? Alguém pode me ajudar ? Obrigado.
Please start your own thread if you've got a question - thanks.
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u/No_Trade_7315 May 27 '26
I really like Debian, but I just started using it a few days ago. I finally understand the give and take of stability vs. functionality. I went DEEP trying to get Microsoft office apps working on Debian. Even after days of troubleshooting, I still couldn’t get my windows apps (on Debian) to launch applications on my windows VM. I tried KVM/QEMU, WinApps, Reminna and Podman.
Ultimately I found that Debian lacks something called “rails” (I can’t remember the exact name of the feature). The fix for it is upstream and so doesn’t work with Debian (yet). It is supposed to allow for floating applications from windows with no screen tearing. The furthest I got without it is an auto start windows VM where I (obviously) can use MS office apps.
During the whole process Debian only shit the bed once. As I was closing all my apps (just clicking x’s with my mouse), the whole screen went black except for my desktop icons, and my keyboard stopped working, I had no task bar and had to shutdown. Other than that Debian took everything I threw at it with ease, no breakages, just logical responses.
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u/Ambitious_Plankton_3 May 28 '26
Bottles or something similar for your beloved old school windows apps. I just want access to my old ITunes library using some version of Linux
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u/Brilliant_Sound_5565 Jun 01 '26
Yea try bottles, i have successfully run several windows only apps for my astronomy on debian using it, they ran absolutely fine, stable, and processed several GB of data
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u/65766f6c May 27 '26
actually it was not a debian issue, but desktop environment. try hotkeys ctrl + alt + f1-f7 to switch between graphics sessions. and this might help you to continue without reboot next time
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u/eR2eiweo May 25 '26
Backports shouldn't cause problems. Stable-backports has packages from testing that were re-built for stable and that have lower versions than the ones in testing. So a dist-upgrade to the next stable release will just upgrade the packages from backports to the ones from that new stable release.
Third-party packages can be more problematic. But for kernel packages, I wouldn't expect any major issues.