I’m not stuck in time. I’ve embraced dependability.
The
mint | opensuse | fedora | arch | gentoo | freebsd | openbsd | void | devuan | debianpipeline is real.Maybe nix will pull me from depths of stability soon before I get overconfident, try LFS, and promptly switch to pen & paper.
(Or try bedrock linux and spend rest eternity in the purgatory equivalent of distro-hopping)
I went from cutting edge tech excited nerd to literally this picture, and life is better.
Me too, friend. Generational leaps were so cool when I was a kid. Now that I’m in my thirties, I just see it all as a rent-a-spy.
At this point, even my printer is suspect. It stays unplugged until it’s needed.
But the phone? It’s a shame the telephone is always listening.
I don’t mind at all if people think I’m old, I kind of am.
Thing is, fancy new containerised packages have really changed the dynamic here.
I don’t care if gnome is 5 years old. Everything I actually use is up to date.
That’s the point: stable
I still keep my hp-42s calculator nearby
It works
Wait. Are you my Dad?
The Debian Stable lifestyle is appealing to me more and more every day now
There is something nostalgic about Gnome 1/2. i do miss them
Where’s your 25 year old leather belt that has wear marks near every hole? Documenting your progression into middle age like tree rings.
Name something I can’t do with Debian stable.
Get laid?
I’m sure it could run VRchat lol
Well… use certbot’s new dns persistence mode. That may be a few years before it gets in. May be in backports, haven’t checked.
Run my camera driver. ISP4 is in kernel 7.2 I think. ;_;
Oh well, it’s a matter of time.
I drive an older model manual transmission acura and use a 1980s style programmable thermostat with no smart features or connectivity. Use Debian stable with KDE. Checks out
I use arch linux and drive a 2001 sebring i found abandoned. My internet is a hotspot and i have 3 powerstrips hooked into a single outlet
Y’all seem cool as hell, you should leave your basement so we can meet sometime.
Judging by this posi I should probably start using Debian stable
honestly man…it’s not a bad decision. I for a long time didn’t give Debian the time of day. Now i’m daily driving OpenBSD and I use a Debian VM on it for certain dev work (mainly builds and deploys) and then on my second NVME I first went with Bazzite to do gaming but then I changed my mind and was like “meh, debian” and it’s solid. it’s good. it stays out of my way for what I want to do on it which isn’t much.
It’s a decent distro that’s just kinda there and you don’t have to worry about it.
Except the NVIDIA drivers are 40 versions behind and break every time the kernel updates.
The Nvidia driver in the Debian repos is virtually abandoned, though thankfully the Cuda repos hosted by Nvidia support Debian now, and give Debian users access to the latest drivers, like 610.
I enabled this repo last week on Debian 13 (RTX4080). While it technically works, I’d say it’s not without risks for those not a little familiar with linux.
It first required some fiddling cause the file that is supposed to blacklist Nouveau on boot was renamed by apt as .save or something as a result of the package upgrades, so the system just started loading Nouveau instead of the new driver. Fixing this got me further, as the 610 proprietary driver finally loaded.
Sarting my usual plasma X11 session didn’t work though. It launched but didn’t display shit (grey boxes instead of windows and taskbar basically).
Having also plasma wayland available from sddm, I tried to launch this session and it got me a working desktop. So I ended settling with this. Wayland used to be crap on my system, but with this recent NVIDIA drivers, it’s usable. My only real complaint is the extra latency on the mouse cursor.
I also had some difficulty getting it working on my rig, and I’m not a big fan if Debian’s documentation, as it often does assume knowledge, which makes it harder to follow along and feel confident you’re doing the correct steps.
Ultimately I switched my only Nvidia system to standard Linux Mint to have access to their easy to use Nvidia driver installer, which makes upgrading or downgrading the driver a 1-click process (though it requires a third party PPA done by a canonical employee to access the latest 610 drivers).
Just wait until the kernel updates.
It’s perfect for my 8 year old laptop
Wait, openbsd can run debian vms?
Why wouldn’t it be able to if it supports virtualization? Probably could run Windows VMs if you wanted to.
vmm used to only support openbsd as guest os iirc, I guess it has added linux support.
It’s missing daily medication for old age related illnesses and glasses.
I’m in this picture based on vibes, but don’t possess the goods listed there.
